April 12, 2021 last updated 14:32 ET An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, in southern Afghanistan, Jan. 31, 2010 (AP photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth).
Biden’s Review of Drone Strikes Is a Chance to Reject ‘Targeted Killings’ The Editors Wednesday, March 10, 2021
On its first day in office, the Biden administration quietly placed temporary limits on counterterrorism drone strikes outside of active battlefields. According to the New York Times, which first broke the news last week, the new restrictions are intended as a stopgap while Biden’s national security team conducts a broader review of U.S. counterterrorism operations overseas including whether to reverse policies put in place by the Trump administration that expanded the use of drone strikes.