WASHINGTONUS President Barack Obama plans to lay out on Thursday his administration's evolving counterterrorism policies, from the controversial use of drones to efforts to close the notorious US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a White House official has said.Obama's use of military drone ...

US Assistant Secretary of Defence Michael Sheehan told the Senate Armed Services Committee that there is no time limit or geographical boundary on drone strikes. M Sheehan said this during testimony on Friday, in which he said that military operations against Al-Qaeda would last beyond the present ...

    ISLAMABAD   US Ambassador Richard Olson on Friday met JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman and congratulated him as his party has won seats in national and provincial assemblies. The ambassador underscored theUScommitment to a strong bilateral relationship withPakistanbased on respect and ...

  ALYSSA ROHRICHT   On Monday, the Associated Press revealed that the Department of Justice used subpoenas to obtain phone records of its editors and reporters from April and May 2012. The records were obtained due to the investigation and supposed leak to the AP last year that the CIA ...

The Peshawar High Court has spoken sternly against drones, giving specific directions to the government about how to put an end to attacks by these flying killers. Pronouncing its judgment on Wednesday on a petition demanding that drones should not be allowed to play havoc with the lives of the ...

  WASHINGTON A Yemeni writer and activist told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that aUSdrone strike on his small town ofWessab"tore my heart," much as the Boston Marathon bombings upset Americans. "Most of the world has never heard of Wessab. But just six days ago, my village was struck ...

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is canceling the creation of a new military medal for drone and cyber warriors, and instead wants military leaders to develop a special pin or device that would be attached to already existing medals or ribbons.    The Distinguished Warfare ...

MIRANSHAH  - At least five militants have been killed by a US drone strike on Sunday in North Waziristan.The attack took place in Datta Khel town, 35 kilometres west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan.Six US drones flew over the area when one of them ...

The influential head of Google, Eric Schmidt, has called for civilian drone technology to be regulated, warning about privacy and security concerns. Cheap miniature versions of the unmanned aircraft used by militaries could fall into the wrong hands, he told the UK's Guardian newspaper. Quarrelling ...

A secret deal between the ISI and the CIA over drone strikes is the subject of a new book by Mark Mazzeti, “Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth”. The Pakistan army would agree to the strikes but first the CIA had to kill their enemy ...

Rosa Brooks‘I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,’ Albert Einstein had warned US president Harry Truman, “but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”It doesn’t do to quarrel with Einstein and he is no doubt right about a fourth World ...

GUWAHATI  - India said Monday it is deploying drones over a reserve to safeguard the rare one-horned rhino from poachers. The unmanned aerial vehicle gives patrols a new strategic advantage with an eye in the sky, allowing access into previously unreachable areas and a safe view of illegal ...

ISLAMABAD  – The Foreign Office spokesman has reiterated that Pakistan regards the use of drone strikes as counterproductive.Responding to a query regarding a story published in New York Times on an alleged deal on drones‚ the spokesman said that the story is baseless and a part of ...

Opponents of drone attacks on foreign lands kicked off a month-long campaign aimed at putting a stop to them when a fairly large number of old women gathered at New York on Thursday to protest, carrying placards that read: “Drones fly, children die”. The organisers intend staging ...

DANYA GREENFIELD & DAVID J KRAMER - Most news out of the Middle East these days is dispiriting: The devastating civil war in Syria, the autocratic nature of Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt, continued militia activity in Libya, a coalition collapse in Tunisia. Less discussed, and surprisingly ...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court sought reply from the federal government on a petition moved by Jamadut Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed against drone attacks on Pakistani land. During the proceedings on Thursday a deputy attorney general (DAG) sought time as the caretaker government had taken ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has said that drone attacks are not only violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty but are counter productive and their legality is questionable.He expressed these concerns to US ambassador Richard Olson who called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr‚ in ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday took up the thorny drone attacks issue with US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson and conveyed sentiments of the Pakistani nation over illegal drone strikes.Credible diplomatic told TheNation that Hina Khar was upset over lack of US ...

Simon JenkinsThe greatest threat to world peace is not from nuclear weapons and their possible proliferation. It is from drones and their certain proliferation. Nuclear bombs are useless weapons, playthings for the powerful.Drones are now sweeping the global arms market. There are some 10,000 said ...

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN - At least 17 suspected Taliban fighters including a key commander were killed and seven others injured when US drones fired a volley of missiles at militant compounds in South Waziristan Agency on Sunday.Three US spy planes fired at least eight missiles at two compounds housing ...

Militant commander Mullah Nazir was killed in a US drone strikes in South Waziristan, killing him is astonishing news as he was the only commander who was supporting our government’s efforts against militant groups, and he was considered the government’s biggest supporter in the area. ...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The United Nations wants to use drones for the first time to monitor fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda has been accused of aiding rebels, officials said Friday.Peacekeeping chiefs have been in contact with the governments of DR Congo and of ...

WASHINGTON - US lawmaker Dennis Kucinich has called for Congress oversight of the drone programme, reported examiner.com on Friday.Speaking in House of Representatives, Congressman Kucinich said: “The drone programme has thus far been conducted with no oversight from Congress or any judicial ...

ISLAMABAD  - Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Wednesday the majority of those killed in drone attacks were innocent people. According to the minister, only 20 per cent of those killed in drone attacks were militants while the rest were innocent people.  Malik, while speaking to ...

ISLAMABAD - The use of drones in Pakistan normally brings to mind images of US spy planes attacking tribal areas. But drones now are being used to capture a different kind of picture in the country — showing some of the world’s highest mountains being scaled by world-class climbers ...

On Friday, August 24, 2012, our friend and ally rained down deadly rockets from three drones on hapless people in the North Waziristan Agency (NWA), killing 18 of them and injuring 14 others. No one knows and no one will ever know, how many of them were guilty of terrorist acts and how many were ...

LONDON – Pakistan’s High Commissioner to United Kingdom Wajid Shmsul Hasan has warned that CIA drone strikes in tribal areas are weakening democracy and risk pushing people towards extremist groups. Pakistan’s senior diplomat has also accused the US of ‘talking in ...

PESHAWAR - Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan on Friday remarked that the issue of drone strikes should be raised at an international forum.He passed the observation while hearing a case pertaining to a March 17 drone attack on a petition was filed by the victims’ ...

Charles V PeñaI assume most, if not all, readers of Antiwar.com are familiar with drones, aka unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs. I’ve written previously about drones in two Antiwar.com columns: “Memo to Rep. Ron Paul” and “Commuting to war.” Armed drones have ...

MULTAN - The activists of Muttahida Shehri Mahaaz (MSM) staged a demonstration against drone attacks here at Timber Market on Wednesday. A large number of MSM activists assembled outside Timber Market and carried out non-stop sloganeering against the US. The protesters burnt the effigy of US ...