For instance, social media users widely shared a statistic that Obama ordered 542 drone strikes while president, resulting in the deaths of 3,797 people, including 542 civilians. Snopes.com ...

On the defensive over a trio of controversies, President Barack Obama refocused the debate Thursday with a speech laying out his administration’s rationale for the use of unmanned drone strikes ...

The following day, Obama authorized two Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes in northwest Pakistan, which, combined, killed an estimated one militant and 10 civilians, including between four ...

Obama promised greater transparency and oversight on drone strikes in a May 2013 speech at National Defense University. The administration has provided few details since then about how the drone ...

A major component of President Obama’s Thursday address on his administration’s counterterrorism policy was the use of drone strikes against suspected terrorists, a program that had raised questions ...

President Obama is on pace to leave a flawed legacy ... and allies to understand — the basic framework for U.S. drone strikes and answer significant domestic and international criticism.

The result, aides said, will be a curtailing of the frequent, secret drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen that have marked much of Obama’s presidency. At the same time, Obama reserved the right ...

As a frequent critic of the Obama administration’s foreign policy, I found Jeffrey Goldberg’s excellent interview a useful reminder that, for all my misgivings about the Iraq War hawks that ...

Four American citizens have been killed in counter-terrorism drone strikes since 2009, the Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday. Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed ...

It may be to President Obama's credit that this week, posed with a question about American drone strikes, he answered it rather than ducking it--even though the strikes are technically covert ...

President Obama on Thursday defended his administration’s aggressive use of drone strikes in the war on terror, even as he announced steps that could reduce reliance on the program. In a speech ...

Since taking office, Obama’s counterterrorism strategy has increasingly relied on the use of strikes by unmanned spy drones, particularly in Pakistan and Yemen. The highly secretive program has ...