(AUDIO) Yemeni Activist Discusses US-Led Drone Strikes And The Covert War On Terror In Yemen

Baraa Shiban, a Yemeni activist shares with MintPress his insights on drones, counter-terrorism and America’s covert war on terror in the most impoverished and politically unstable country in the Arabian Peninsula.

Catherine Shakdam
By Catherine Shakdam
Mideast Yemen

People gather near a car struck by an American drone in the Sawmaa area of al-Bayda province, Yemen, Saturday, April 19, 2014.  Photo: Nasir al-Sanna'a/AP LONDON --- Baraa Shiban is a Yemeni activist and investigative journalist for Reprieve, a U.K.-based nonprofit which works to shine light on human rights abuses within

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After Lull, US Drone Strikes Kill 13 In Pakistan

The two separate drone strikes sparked swift condemnation by the Pakistani government.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Missiles from U.S. drones slammed into militant hideouts overnight in northwestern Pakistan, killing 13 suspected insurgents and marking the resumption of the CIA-led program after a nearly six-month break, officials said Thursday. The two separate drone strikes sparked swift condemnation by the Pakistani government. The

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Why US Intelligence Officials Pressured Senate To Block Public Release Of Drone Strikes

“A basic report of the number of people killed shouldn’t be too much to ask,” one human rights advocate argues.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

It appears Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and her colleagues on the Senate Intelligence Committee have largely forgiven the U.S. intelligence community for eavesdropping on their phone calls and spying on their email correspondence. Acting on the request of James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, Feinstein and her

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US Lacks Accurate Drone Civilian Casualty Data, Says Military Analyst

‘US drone strikes, past and present, should be analysed to identify both levels and root causes of civilian harm,’

Patrick Galey
By Patrick Galey

The US should gather accurate figures of civilians killed in its drone strikes and subject them to Congressional oversight, a leading US military analyst has said. Dr Larry Lewis, principal research scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), a federally funded military research organisation, also called for better training and

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#NotaBugSplat: Artists Use Enormous Portrait To Humanize Victims Of US Drones

‘When viewed by a drone camera, what an operator sees on his screen is not an anonymous dot on the landscape, but an innocent child victim’s face.’

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally

In an attempt to humanize the many hundreds of innocent people killed by U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan, an artist collective has teamed up with human rights advocates and local villagers to turn the tables on the drone operatives themselves by "targeting" them with something they rarely see from their military control rooms half-way around the

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UN Human Rights Body Slams US Over Targeted Assassinations

US must provide justification, accountability for drone policies, says UN Human Rights Committee.

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos

The United States "should revisit its position regarding legal justifications for the use of deadly force through drone attacks," a UN human rights body stated Thursday. In its concluding observations on the United States' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), a U.S.-ratified treaty that outlines basic

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