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Public tallies of U.S. “drone strikes” from 2009 onward vary by compiler and by what operations they include: the U.S. DNI reported 473 strikes from Jan 20, 2009–Dec 31, 2015 and an additional 53 stri...
Available reporting in the provided set shows disagreement about who “bombed more countries” and focuses on different metrics—number of bombs dropped, countries struck, and transparency. Some outlets ...
Estimates of casualties from drone strikes ordered during Barack Obama’s presidency vary widely: independent trackers put total strikes in the 400–563 range and civilian deaths from hundreds to roughl...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive tally of how many drone strikes occurred during President Biden’s term; independent trackers report that U.S. strikes dropped to historic lows und...
Estimates of civilian deaths tied to U.S. strikes differ sharply by methodology and time period: Airwars estimated roughly 2,300–3,400 civilian deaths in the coalition fight against IS under Obama whi...
The available public records and investigative reporting show for civilian casualties caused by U.S. strikes during President Joe Biden’s term; official U.S. tallies list only a small number of confir...
Using the reporting available, there is no single, universally accepted tally that settles “who bombed the most” between Barack Obama and Donald Trump; measured in some metrics Trump escalated bombing...
Public reporting does not offer a single, authoritative count of all drone strikes conducted during President Trump’s administration; available sources cite partial tallies for specific theaters—e.g.,...
Publicly available U.S. government figures released under Obama estimated between 64 and 116 civilian deaths from U.S. drone and other strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa from 2009 through mid‑2016 ...
Public sources show the Biden administration sharply reduced reported drone and other declared strikes in 2021 compared with prior years — Airwars found declared U.S. strikes fell 54% globally in 2021...
The Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH) is the single most frequently cited and institutionally accepted source for the overall death toll in Gaza and is treated as the primary daily tally by the UN and WHO...
Russian combat losses in Ukraine are reported at a scale unprecedented for post‑1945 Russian or Soviet conflicts, but estimates vary sharply depending on definitions and sources. Contemporary analyses...
Estimates of how many drone strikes President Barack Obama “authorized” vary by dataset and by how one counts CIA, Pentagon and coalition strikes; contemporary reporting and research groups put total ...
Available reporting and official acknowledgments show at least four U.S. citizens have been killed in U.S. drone or airstrike operations since 2001: Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress that fou...
President Biden authorized or directed U.S. airstrikes in at least Syria (Feb. 25, 2021 and subsequent strikes), Iraq (retaliatory strikes against Iran‑backed groups, Dec. 2023), and operations that i...
Precise year-by-year civilian casualty counts from U.S. drone strikes for 2009–2025 are not published in a single authoritative dataset in the sources provided; independent trackers (the Bureau of Inv...
President Barack Obama oversaw far more drone and covert air strikes than his predecessors—most counts put his total between roughly 540 and 563 strikes across Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and other theat...
Available reporting documents at least one high-profile Biden-era drone strike that the Pentagon later acknowledged killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in Kabul on Aug. 29, 2021 . Sources s...
Officially, the Obama administration disclosed that between 64 and 116 civilians were killed by U.S. drone and other strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa during his presidency, a figure that sits wel...
Available reporting shows specific acknowledged civilian deaths from US strikes under President Biden include a widely reported Kabul strike that killed 10 civilians (including seven children) and bro...