The outgoing Obama administration said on Thursday the US had conducted 53 strikes outside areas of active hostilities in 2016, killing one
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Month: January 2017
Trump, Obama and the future of targeted killing
Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy is often discussed in terms of things he didn’t do: intervene in Syria, reset with
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Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush
There were ten times more air strikes in the covert war on terror during President Barack Obama’s presidency than under his predecessor,
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Yemen: Reported US covert actions 2017
This page details events reported by US and Yemeni government, military and intelligence officials, and by credible media, academic and
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Get the data: A list of US air and drone strikes, Afghanistan 2017
A note on our data and methodology US drones and jets have been bombing Afghanistan since late 2001 and the
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