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The Obama administration carried out targeted strikes that killed at least one U.S. citizen — Anwar al‑Awlaki — and struck again days later in Yemen that killed his 16‑year‑old son Abdulrahman, also a...
Barack Obama’s administration developed a formal, internal framework (the Presidential Policy Guidance, PPG) that imposed specific constraints—such as geographic limits, a “near-certainty” standard to...
Republican leaders have invoked Barack Obama’s drone campaign—often citing a figure of roughly 500–550 strikes—to defend or contextualize recent “double-tap” maritime strikes in the Caribbean; reporti...
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 ...
Available reporting shows the Obama administration conducted U.S. airstrikes and drone strikes across at least seven countries, with the most-cited list including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia...
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...
Sources differ but cluster around roughly 1,800–1,900 total U.S. “drone strikes” during Barack Obama’s eight years: the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s compiled figure cited by BBC is 1,878 strik...
The Obama administration expanded and oversaw hundreds of drone and airstrike operations in Pakistan and elsewhere; multiple reputable trackers put U.S. strikes in Pakistan and neighboring areas at hu...
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...
Research compiled by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism counted 1,878 drone strikes during Barack Obama’s eight years and reported 2,243 strikes "since Mr Trump was elected in 2016," a figure cite...
Different counts exist for how many military/drone strikes the Obama administration carried out abroad between 2009 and 2017: U.S. government tallies published by the Office of the Director of Nationa...
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...
Independent trackers show a sharp rise in U.S. drone and related lethal strikes after 2008 and wide disagreement about civilian tolls: the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports roughly 563 strike...
Independent trackers report roughly 57 drone strikes in George W. Bush’s presidency, about 540–563 under Barack Obama, and a highly concentrated surge early in Donald Trump’s term (2,243 strikes in Tr...
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 ...
The claim that “Obama ordered 4,200 drone attacks on men and women” is not supported by the available reporting in the provided sources. Major counts of U.S. drone strikes under President Barack Obama...
The numbers for : U.S. government tallies released under Obama count roughly *tens* of civilian deaths, while investigative NGOs and researchers estimate *hundreds* to over a thousand across Pakistan,...
Barack Obama’s administration conducted hundreds of drone strikes that independent researchers and rights groups say killed civilians overseas and acknowledged that U.S. citizens were among those kill...
Available reporting shows substantial disagreement over how to count “military operations” Obama authorized and how many civilians died; narrow tallies exist for specific programs (e.g., drone strikes...
The simple claim "did Obama kill kids?" conflates individual criminal action with policy consequences; there is , but his administration’s expanded drone campaign and counterterrorism operations resul...