Just days before a historic briefing in Congress, top secret documents suggest Pakistan “routinely received classified briefings” on drone strikes inside its borders.
Amnesty International says the US could be guilty of war crimes for unlawful killings in Pakistan, carried out by drones.
A leading Yemeni human rights activist questioned by Gatwick airport anti-terror officers tells Channel 4 News he fears Britain is targeting people who oppose US drone wars.
The head of the RAF tells Channel 4 News that the world of Terminator 2 is coming in response to a question about unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as “drones”.
British drone flights over Afghanistan have nearly trebled since 2008, while the use of missiles has increased sixfold, according to new figures released by the Ministry of Defence.
At least six suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen’s southeastern province of Maareb are dead after a US drone strike, officials said – the sixth such strike in less than two weeks.
A Yemeni government official says the authorities have foiled an al-Qaeda plot to capture oil and gas export facilities and a provincial capital in the eastern part of the country.
It sounded like hope for the Pakistani civilians living in the shadow of drones, but is the US suggestion that it could stop its anti-terror campaign in the Middle East country to be believed?
A US drone strike kills at least 16 people in Pakistan’s restive border region, security officials have said.
Pakistan’s new government has lodged a protest with the Americans and summoned a top US diplomat to complain about a drone strike on Friday.
Alex Thomson
Warfare has undergone bizarre twists down the centuries, but the current life of the drone operator in the western deserts of the USA is beyond weird – and there is evidence it is beyond the tolerance some of the humans involved.
Pakistan Taliban number two, Wali-ur-Rehman, has been killed in a US drone strike, say security officials.
Barack Obama says he’s rewriting the rules on drone strikes. Are pilotless planes a vital weapon in the war on terror, or is the cost in civilian lives too high?
More transparency, stricter controls. President Obama promises to be more open about America’s fight against terrorism – in an effort to regain his credibility in an increasingly dangerous world.
Drones are being flown in Afghanistan by UK-based pilots for the first time. The Ministry of Defence say the vehicles save lives – but protesters say they are a tool to fight wars “behind our backs”.