The Pentagon Fails to Acknowledge Victims of Drone Strikes

The US uses remotely controlled drones to make targeted strikes. Sometimes, American operators misidentify targets, killing innocents.

Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly ...

The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. The documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of ...

Pentagon Compensated Zero Civilian Victims in 2022 - The Intercept

A 2018 U.S. drone strike in Somalia killed a 22-year-old woman and her child. The U.S. has been ignoring the family for years.

McCollum Statement on Pentagon's Acknowledgement of Error in ...

Congresswoman Betty McCollum (MN-04), Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense (HAC-D), issued the following statement ...

The US Military Ignores and Neglects the Civilian Victims of Its Air ...

The United States can find time to issue orders for new air strikes but not to issue apologies for past errant attacks.

U.S. Has Never Apologized to Somali Drone Strike Victims

Relatives of civilians killed by U.S. troops in Somalia share their ideas of justice in a new report. The Pentagon has no response.

Afghanistan proves drone strikes have failed - MIT Technology Review

20 years after the first drone attack missed its target, civilians are still being killed. Why can't we admit that it doesn't work?

It's difficult to get the Pentagon to acknowledge civilian casualties

Several things stood out: the overall tally of 23 civilians killed and 11 injured in all U.S. military operations worldwide was startlingly low ...

Pentagon admits error in U.S. drone strike that killed 10 civilians in ...

The US military on Friday acknowledged that a drone strike in Kabul they initially said killed an ISIS suicide bomber had in fact killed only civilians.

The Pentagon's .00035 Percent Problem - FPIF

In the 2022 edition, the Pentagon exonerated itself of harming noncombatants. “DoD has assessed that U.S. military operations in 2022 resulted ...

'Honest mistake': US strike that killed Afghan civilians was legal

Investigation finds civilian deaths did not violate law as strike ... A Pentagon investigation that found a drone strike in Kabul that ...

Pentagon Acknowledges Aug. 29 Drone Strike in Afghanistan Was ...

A week after a New York Times visual investigation, the U.S. military admitted to a tragic mistake in an Aug. 29 drone strike in Kabul that ...

US deadly drone strikes - Amnesty International UK

Thanks so much to all those who took action demanding the UK come clean about its involvement in lethal US drone strikes around the world.

Pentagon decides no US troops will be punished over botched ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has decided that no US military personnel will be punished over the August drone strike in Kabul that killed ...

Civilian casualties from the United States drone strikes - Wikipedia

Since the September 11 attacks, the United States has carried out drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

U.S. drone attack killed woman, child in Somalia in 2018

A U.S. drone attack in Somalia in 2018 killed Luul Dahir Mohamed and Mariam Shilow Muse. A Pentagon investigation found no one at fault.

No misconduct in deadly US drone attack in Kabul: Pentagon review

US military drone attack in the Afghan capital in late August killed 10 civilians, including seven children.

Pentagon Acknowledges Drone Strike Killed Afghan Civilians - NPR

The Pentagon initially asserted that the drone strike last month — which resulted in multiple civilian deaths — had killed an Islamic State ...

America's Counterterrorism Wars: The War in Yemen - New America

Tracking the United States's drone strikes and other operations in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya.

Just & Unjust Targeted Killing & Drone Warfare

Targeted killing in the “war on terror” and in war generally is subject to familiar and severe moral constraints. The constraints hold across the board; ...