As long as the Air Force pinky-swears it didn’t mean to, its drone fleet can keep tabs on the movements of Americans, far from the battlefields of A...
AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 04.23.2012
LOS ANGELES -- An unmanned hypersonic glider likely aborted its 13,000 mph flight over the Pacific Ocean last summer because unexpectedly large sectio...
AP | By SYLVIA HUI | Posted 05.24.2012
LONDON -- In a new claim of British complicity in rights violations overseas, a human rights group took legal action Monday against the British govern...
Kathy Kelly | Posted 04.30.2012
Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan's Wardak province. She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five. His father was killed by an American bomber plane, remote-controlled by computer.
Posted 02.23.2012
By: Sean Captain, TechNewsDaily Managing Editor Published: 02/23/2012 11:32 AM EST on TechNewsDaily Drones – robotic planes and helicopters wi...
Reuters | Posted 03.23.2012
* Targets hunted by network of Pakistani "spotters" * Al Qaeda is Pakistan's top priority * Cooperation may be more exte...
Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson | Posted 01.06.2012
President Barack Obama unveiled his defense strategy, which features an emphasis on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) or Drones. This coming fresh o...
Posted 12.20.2011
What do you call a flying saucer that isn't flying? That's what residents of Cowley County, Kan. are asking themselves after a mysterious 32-foot-l...
AP | Posted 02.14.2012
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's foreign minister demanded Thursday that Afghanistan stop allowing the U.S. to use bases in the country to launch drone fli...
Ryan Calo | Posted 02.12.2012
Drones are simply too effective, too cost efficient, for police, firefighters, and even the private sector to ignore. So why isn't the sky already filled with drones?
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 02.11.2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has delivered a formal request to Iran for the return of a U.S. surveillance drone captured by Iranian arm...
AP | Posted 02.04.2012
By CHRIS BRUMMITT, Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) � The U.S. ambassador to Pakistan says Washington is complying with Islamabad's demand to vaca...
Daniel J. Kushner | Posted 08.07.2011
It's as if someone plugged an amplifier into a Mark Rothko painting -- color, texture, space are decontextualized and presented in striking elemental form.
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
The Obama administration is frustrated with the Pakistani government's inability to quell the Taliban. Who are the US to be frustrated? The answer to...
The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011
The UK Ministry of Defence's "combat aircraft of the future" -- a state-of-the-art jet capable of deploying weapons and bringing back intelligence wit...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
When President Obama decided last year to narrow the scope of the nine-year war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he and his aides settled on a formulation...
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
What's worse: backstabbing a president or bombing lots of civilians? The answers pretty obvious to judge by the stink over General Stanley McChrystal.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011
"Punjabi Taliban" responsible for attacks in major Pakistan cities: Interior minister. Rehman Malik blamed what he calls the "Punjabi Taliban" for a s...
Rich Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
What if instead of flying Predators, we brought out the belly-dragging C-117's. And airdropped hundreds of state-of-the-art stand-alone hot tubs that require no plumbing or hard wiring?
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
The CIA's extensive use of unmanned drones to kill alleged terrorists in Pakistan and elsewhere is arguably against international law and raises the p...
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
"The deaths of three American soldiers in a Taliban suicide attack on Wednesday lifted the veil on United States military assistance to Pakistan." S...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A Senate chairman said Wednesday that the U.S. should consider airstrikes, armed drones and clandestine operations in Yemen to defe...
The New York Times | PIR ZUBAIR SHAH and SALMAN MASOOD | Posted 05.25.2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A suspected United States drone strike killed at least 60 people at a funeral gathering in South Waziristan on Tuesday, residen...
Wired | Posted 05.25.2011
It sounds like a tinfoil hat nightmare, come to life: tiny electronic homing beacons, guiding CIA killer drones to their targets. But local residents ...
Wired | Posted 05.08.2012