Trump’s Drone Kill Rate 80 Times Greater than Under Bush

It took Trump only seven months to surpass the number of civilian deaths in foreign nations that occurred during Obama’s entire eight-year presidency, according to non-profit monitoring group Airwars.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Whitney Webb , President Donald Trump touches a drone during a tour of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border equipment at their airport hanger at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Yuma, Ariz. , President Donald Trump touches a drone during a tour of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border equipment at their airport hanger at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Yuma, Ariz. , President Donald Trump touches a drone during a tour of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border equipment at their airport hanger at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Yuma, Ariz. (AP/Alex Brandon

During the 2016 election, Donald Trump – quite successfully – managed to convince a sizable portion of the electorate that he would take a much more anti-interventionist stance, in terms of U.S. military entanglements abroad, than would his contender Hillary Clinton. Yet, throughout his first year as president, such differences have been few and

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Department of Defense Scraps Plan to Ban Cluster Bombs

“This is a profoundly retrograde step that puts the U.S. way out of line with the international consensus.”

Andrea Germanos
بواسطة Andrea Germanos
A man holds a cluster comb fragment after a Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen's capital, Monday, April 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

The Pentagon made a decision that "beggars belief," human rights groups said Friday, when it tossed out its plan to ban certain cluster bombs that leave a large percentage of lethal, unexploded munitions, which pose a significant risk to civilians. "This is a profoundly retrograde step that puts the U.S. way out of line with the international

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Report: US Airstrikes Killed 433 Civilians In Raqqa In August

An estimated 20,000 civilians are believed to still be trapped in Raqqa, which is being invaded by US-backed Kurdish forces.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
A U.S. soldier stands near Syrian children on a road that links to Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, July 26, 2017.(AP/Hussein Malla)

A new report from British NGO Airwars estimates that US airstrikes against the ISIS capital city of Raqqa in August killed at least 433 civilians. They reported 5,775 bombs, shells, and missiles dropped in the city in that period. Airwars said that the level of US-led coalition airstrikes against Raqqa is even higher than in the Iraqi city of

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Report: Saudis Double Yemen Airstrikes In 2017, Civilian Casualties Mounting

Yemen suffered more airstrikes in the first half of this year than in the whole of 2016, increasing the number of civilian deaths and forcing more people to flee their homes

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
Report: Saudis Increasing Yemen Airstrikes, Killing More Civilians

Throughout 2016, the UN High Commission for Refugees counted 3,936 airstrikes in Yemen. The newly released figures for the first half of 2017 show that previous figure, which covered an entire year, is already far surpassed, with 5,676 air strikes launched by the end of June. This has turned an already catastrophic humanitarian situation, with

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