Author: Abigail Fielding Smith

The overstretched US military has hired hundreds of private sector contractors in the heart of its drone operations to analyse

Some months ago, an imagery analyst was sitting in his curtained cubicle at Hurlburt Field airbase in Florida watching footage

Distinguishing between militants in Yemen and those merely associated with them is getting harder as the country’s war drags on, correspondent Iona Craig told

Transferring control of the US drone programme away from the CIA could paradoxically result in less accountability, author and investigative

In this week’s Drone News, Owen Bennett-Jones, Jack Serle and Abigail Fielding-Smith discuss Barack Obama’s admission that a January CIA