The targeted killing of top Taliban leaders has had little impact on the strength and size of the organisation, according to a CIA report leaked by Wikileaks.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has confirmed that its deputy leader Sheikh Saeed al-Shehri was killed by a US drone-strike in Yemen.
In recent years, the legality and civilian casualties of the secretive American drone programme have increasingly been the subject of much discussion. But one question has gone largely unasked: What is the impact of drone warfare on humanitarian work?
Senior Pakistani militant leader Mullah Nazir has been killed by a US drone strike in the north-west tribal district of South Waziristan near the Afghanistan border, security officials say.
A London court has ruled against examining intelligence-sharing by GCHQ that leads to CIA drone strikes, claiming it would ‘imperil relations’ with the US.