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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phil at St. John’s College, Oxford. Covert drone strikes are one of President Obama’s key national security policies. He has already authorized 283 strikes in Pakistan, six times more than the ...

Donald Trump launched 238 drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia—way beyond what the ‘Drone President’ Barack Obama did. Contributing Editor The U.S. president inherited a remotely ...

When Obama was sworn into office in 2009, the nation's clandestine drone war was confined to a single country, Pakistan, where 44 strikes over five years had left about 400 people dead ...

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 ...