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Confront and conceal – the Obama approach?
What kind of president is Barack Obama? Certainly not the kind that America thought it had elected almost four years ago. Matt Frei blogs on Mr Obama’s expansion of cyber warfare and use of drones.
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Pakistani security forces have turned back protesters led by cricket star turned politician Imran Khan at the border of a volatile tribal region.
Israeli jets reportedly fly low over southern Lebanon in show of strength after an unmanned drone crossed into Israeli airspace.
A report into Britain’s spending on military drones over the last five years reveals the most clear evidence yet that the future of warfare is unmanned and remote-controlled.
America’s so called “war on terror” did not end when George W Bush left office. Under Barack Obama the covert war entered a new phase, one of increasing reliance on missile strikes from aerial drones.
Imran Khan moves his anti-drone march in Pakistan to 7 October and, speaking to Channel 4 News, calls on the US to “reveal the identities of drone victims”.
An al-Qaeda takeover in northern Mali has sparked an exodus of half a million people. Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum meets some of them as they cross the border to Mauritania.
As a section of UK airspace is set aside for unmanned aircraft, Channel 4 News asks whether drone technology is the future of aviation.
What kind of president is Barack Obama? Certainly not the kind that America thought it had elected almost four years ago. Matt Frei blogs on Mr Obama’s expansion of cyber warfare and use of drones.
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on prospects for democracy in Libya.
Militant Libyan cleric Abu Yahya al-Libi, described as al-Qaeda’s second in command, has been killed by a US drone strike in Pakistan, officials confirm.
A US drone attack in north west Pakistan, reported to have killed at least 10 people, hit a small village mosque sources reports Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben de Pear.
Channel 4 News presenter, Jon Snow, on Afghanistan, British and US military presence there, and the meanings of war.
Lawyers working for human rights group Reprieve launch formal proceedings against the government over claims the UK is “helping” the US carry out covert drone strikes in Pakistan.
Jon Snow on the latest film to sweep the internet calling for the capture of the militia leader Joseph Kony who once terrorised northern Uganda.
Foreign Secretary William Hague and his Pakistani counterpart are expected to discuss Afghanistan, terrorism and US drone strikes during talks in London.