Articles tagged "pakistan"

The US says it not only didn't carry out two lethal drone hits last month in Pakistan's tribal belt, but has no idea who did. Their hunch? It was Pakistan. Maybe.

John McCain has never faltered in his principled stance against torture. John Brennan, on the other hand?

It's almost comical, the hand-wringing and head-butting that went into what's ultimately a non-decision, or at the least a long punt. And it doesn't help that the guy who designed Obama's new drone "playbook" doesn't have to adhere to it.

Drones have struck Pakistan seven times in the first 11 days of 2013, and Islamabad--once a very vocal hater of the American kill program--isn't talking.

In a place that's become synonymous with all the moral, ethical, legal, and political quandaries posed by the robo-lords of the new "bugsplat" warfare, the thought of insect-like drones buzzing over northern Pakistan may not immediately take on celeb…

The statistics on remotely-piloted warfare keep getting messier. As many as 33 people are dead in Pakistan and Afghanistan thanks to a series of U.S. drone strikes over the weekend. In Pakistan, it was three separate attacks on Taliban insurgents — o…

It's "never been a good look":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/9/19/the-bad-omen-of-america-s-falling-drone-syndrome when American drones plummet, for reasons known or unknown, into remote, tribally held areas across the Middle East, or over the U.S…

The U.S., of course, is not officially at war with Pakistan. But if anything, the CIA's Predators and Reapers, despite "getting the boot":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/12/you-don-t-have-to-go-home-but-you-can-t-drone-here-u-s-evicted-from-secre…

General Atomics isn’t publicly traded on Wall Street, so obtaining any specific information regarding its balances is a daunting task. I almost feel bad for the Public Relations Manager handling my request for comment. I assume she delivers these hol…

The Obama administration has dialed up the use of robots in the war on terror, a tool that has killed more than 1,300 militants across northwestern Pakistan in the past four years. And it's "a big success":http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12784129, if…