The Obama administration refused to produce documents related to the drone program,claiming the information is classified. The Obama administration filed its response to a Freedom ...

U.N. investigator says drone strikes threaten international law. Several days after urging the U.S. to clarify its policies to ensure that targeted drone killings comply with inte ...

A series of recent news stories, largely based on anonymous sources, reveals an emerging new U.S. military strategy. After more than 10 years of long, bloody ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Obama admi ...

Both of these individuals are important because of their choices for peace. In 1991, Rodney King was stopped and beaten by a group of Los Angeles police officers. The stop was not ...

Administration must respond today to Freedom of Information request on drones. Several years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request ...

The U.K. has been using Reaper drones in Afghanistan for the past four years. More than four years ago, the U.K. Ministry of Defence bought 6 Reaper drones from the U.S.  The ...

The U.S. should clarify the basis under international law of its drone policy. Christof Heyns, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, urged Was ...

Military strategy is changing to drones and cyberwar. U.S. military strategy is changing. From  Associated Press : "After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and ...

52 dead in Christian-Muslim fighting in Nigeria. Agence France-Presse report on the lastest incidents of Christian-Muslim fighting in Nigeria: "The streets of Ni ...

Killing more people with drones will not resolve the threat of terrorism. Vietnam vet and author Terry McDermott sees parallels between the B-52 bombings of Cambodia and the d ...

U.S. formally acknowledges "direct action," i.e. drones, being used in Yemen and Somalia. The Associated Press reports:  "The White House’s semiannual re ...

Drivers who saw drone being transported thought it was a UFO. Wednesday evening, a saucer-shaped object was spotted on a flatbed truck being transported on the Capital Beltway ...

In the second attack in two days, a U.S. drone strike killed at least three people early today. In the second attack in two days, AFP reports that a U.S. drone strike killed a ...

Civilian casualties in Yemen are creating recruitment opportunities for terrorist groups. Ibrahim Mothana, an activist, writer and community worker from Yemen, writes that the ...

A Pew Research Center global survey finds worldwide opposition to U.S. drone strike. According to a new Pew Research Center global survey : "The Obama administratio ...

Members of Congress are raising concerns about drone use. Twenty-six Members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama yesterday demanding the White House’s legal justifica ...

USA Today editorially supports drone strikes, ACLU argues the program should stop. After running an editorial, USA Today often follows it with an opposing view on the topic. I ...

Drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan After more than a week with no reported drone strikes, there are news reports this morning of strikes in Yemen and Pakistan. Over the past ...

According to CNN: ATLANTA, Ga. – With a calm voice and collected manner about her, a 15-year-old girl called Fayette County 911 to report that her father assaulted her. The call led police to the suburban Atlanta home of megachurch pastor C ...

Is killing by drone legal? Five reasons why they're not. Bill Quigley, a human rights lawyer and professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, asks: &quo ...

American negotiators working with Pakistan to reopen critical supply routes into Afghanistan have been called back to the United States Carlo Munoz reports for The Hill: ...

Cynthia Tucker, a visiting professor at the University of Georgia and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for commentary,writes on the lack of accountability in the drone war. Cynth ...

The next generation of drones is 2-feet long, weighs 6 pounds, and can be carried in a soldier's backpack. It’s 2 feet long, weighs only 6 pounds, and can fit into a soldier’ ...

Before we lay the cross of our nation’s racism upon Darius' shoulders, we should remember just how small they are. Before we look at the abundance of #WeAreDarius and 6 p.m. news sound bites, we should re ...

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel offers his thought on the Syrian crisis in The Washington Post : Syria’s story is now both tragedy and scandal. Day after day, its police and army humiliate, frighten and kill score ...

As US-Pakistan relations deteriorate, the CIA gets a green light for more drone attacks. As relations between the U.S. and Pakistan continue to deteriorate, the Obama administra ...

Domestic use of drones needs more transparency and accountability. As the use of drones for surveillance and other activities in the U.S. increases, Leslie Harris, president and C ...

A kill rather than capture policy risks losing potentially valuable intelligence information. In addition to legal and moral concerns about targeted drone killings, a new questi ...

UN High Comissioner for Human Rights questions whether drone attacks comply with international law. Following a four-day visit to Pakistan, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights N ...

Can the Al Qaeda movement can survive the continued attrition of its leaders by targeted drone strikes. In the wake of the death of Al Qaeda’s #2 leader Monday, BBC Security Corr ...

This morning's editorial in The Guardian takes on drone attack policy. One of the U.K.’s leading newspapers, The Guardian, takes on President Obama’s drone policy in an ...

Former CIA counter-terrorism head warns of the "seduction" of drones. Robert Grenier was CIA station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 9/11. He then played a key role in ...

Secretary of Defense says drone attacks will continue. Yesterday, the government of Pakistan once again expressed its opposition to U.S. drone attacks on its territory as bein ...

The government of Pakistan protests drone strikes, US confirms Al Qaeda top leader killed. Following three U.S. drone strikes in the past three days, the government of Pakistan ...

Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's Defense Fund remind us in Protect Children Not Guns 2012 that 5,740 children and teens were killed by guns in 2008 and 2009. The e-ma ...

Domestic use of drone surveillance raises privacy concerns. USA Today has a weekly opinion column featuring Cal Thomas, a conservative columnist, and Bob Beckel, a liberal Dem ...

Drone strikes in Yemen are increasing sympathy for al Qaeda. The escalating campaign of drone attacks in Yemen is having the opposite effect from what the U.S. intends: ...

Last week was Memorial Day, but if you are like me your memories of the day are fraught with colorful childhood parades but also with horrors filled with sadness. It makes one wish for the power to short-circu ...

What will happen as the barriers to entry on drone technology fall enough so that an adversary's drones can be deployed against U.S. and allied forces and interests? An int ...

Escalation of drone attacks in Yemen raises targeting questions. Who is targeted for killing in U.S. drone strikes? Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan claimed in his recent ...

Three US strikes against Pakistan targets in three days leave 27 dead. Fifteen dead in Pakistan on Monday : The third US drone strike in as many days in Pakistan has ...

With White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan’s recent public acknowledgment of their use and revelations of President Obama’s direct involvement in deciding which targets are struck, the world medi ...

David Cortright History shows engagement, not attack, dissuades countries from developing nuclear weapons. CA ...

In the aftermath of former Liberian president, Charles Taylor's conviction for war crimes this week, author Greg Campbell writes for The Atlantic that the children of neighboring Sierra Leone still suffer ...

Christopher Sofolo reflects on the NATO demonstrations in Chicago earlier this month: "Amidst a swirl of percussion the crowd was chanting: 'We are unstoppable! Another world is possible!'" ...

What should President Obama do about Syria? In an opinion piece for  Bloomberg View ,  Michael Kinsley  writes: As demand starts to build on President Barack Obama to ...

About 18 veterans kill themselves each day. For  Newsweek Magazine ,  Andrew Swofford  writes: About 18 veterans kill themselves each day. Thousands from the current ...

A broad coalition of educators and religious groups – from the National Association of Evangelicals to the National School Boards Association – on Tuesday (May 22) endorsed a new pamphlet to help teachers tack ...

No matter where you stand on the issue of gay marriage, there are some boundaries of human decency that should never be crossed. Never. ...

This unfathomable amount of money was approved by the House of Representatives in the National Defense Authorization Act. These funds will serve to bring suffering and pain to innocent people, further militari ...