Dec 06 WATCH: State Department holds briefing following alleged Ukraine drone strikes inside Russia By News Desk and Associated Press State Department spokesman Ned Price will hold a news briefing Tuesday afternoon, after alleged Ukrainian drones struck Russian territory in the second day of attacks. Continue reading
Sep 23 UK says Iran is responsible for attack on Saudi oil facilities By Jill Lawless, Associated Press UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson said the UK is attributing responsibility for the drone strikes "with a very high degree of probability to Iran."… Continue reading
Sep 16 Oil prices spike after drone attack in Saudi Arabia By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press The attack on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia caused the worst disruption to world supplies on record. Continue reading
Mar 08 How Trump changed the Obama-era rule on reporting civilian airstrike deaths By Courtney Vinopal The decision has renewed the stark debate over who dies, and how, in U.S. military action abroad. Continue reading
Aug 07 Watch 5:00 Inside America’s 18-page drone strike ‘playbook’ By PBS News Hour The Obama administration has declassified a previously secret document, often referred to as the drone strike “playbook” that outlines how drone targets are chosen and approved. For more on what’s in the 18-page document and what it reveals, Charlie Savage… Continue watching
Aug 06 U.S. discloses more conditions for lethal drone strikes By Calvin Woodward, Associated Press The White House has released a version of President Barack Obama's 3-year-old guidance on the use of lethal force against terrorists overseas. Continue reading
Nov 13 U.S. ‘reasonably certain’ Jihadi John is dead By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press WASHINGTON — A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John," according to American officials. Whether the strike killed the British man who appears in several videos… Continue reading
May 08 New push to give Pentagon the lead on drone strikes By Ken Dilanian, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The deaths of an Italian and an American in a covert CIA drone strike in Pakistan — and the rhetorical contortions required of the president when he informed the world — have breathed new urgency into a long-stalled… Continue reading
May 04 Former CIA leader defends drone strikes, torture By Ken Dilanian, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama ordered a barrage of CIA drone strikes in Yemen in 2013 that killed the al-Qaida operatives behind the most serious plotting against American interests in years, a former CIA leader says in a new memoir… Continue reading
May 01 Americans approve of drone strikes on terrorists, poll finds By Ken Dilanian, Emily Swanson, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Nearly three-quarters of Americans say it’s acceptable for the U.S. to use an unmanned aerial drone to kill an American citizen abroad if that person has joined a terror organization, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. Continue reading