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American-Yemeni imam and suspected Islamist extremist (1971–2011)
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...
President Barack Obama approved the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric, and U.S. strikes under his administration killed his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki in Yemen; source...
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...
President Barack Obama’s administration ordered at least one lethal strike that killed a U.S. citizen abroad (Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011) and U.S. officials later acknowledged U.S. dro...
President Obama’s administration authorized at least one deliberate targeted killing of a U.S. citizen abroad — Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen — and the Justice Department produced a confidential legal fram...
President Obama’s administration ordered drone strikes that killed at least one U.S. citizen, Anwar al‑Awlaki, and the administration acknowledged that U.S. strikes had killed several American citizen...
The Obama administration justified the targeted killing of U.S. citizens like Anwar al‑Awlaki chiefly through a Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo and a companion DOJ White Paper...
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...
The Obama administration carried out the vast majority of its acknowledged drone and airstrike campaign in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, with reporting groups counting roughly 540–570 strikes in those ...
The Obama administration justified the targeted killing of at least one U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, by treating him as a senior operational leader of Al Qaeda who posed a continuing, imminent threa...
Congress played a limited but contested role in overseeing the Obama administration’s drone strike program: members and committees held hearings, raised legal and transparency concerns, and debated th...
The Obama White House justified airstrikes and lethal drone strikes primarily under three legal rationales: the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), the inherent right of self‑defense ...
Lawsuits and congressional pushback did arise over the Obama administration’s drone program, especially after the 2011 killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al‑Awlaki; civil-rights groups sued and Congress pr...
The U.S. has used lethal drone and airstrike authority overseas that in at least one well‑known instance killed an American citizen, Anwar al‑Awlaki, in 2011; courts dismissed lawsuits challenging tha...
The Obama administration primarily justified drone strikes under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) and international-law self‑defense principles while adding internal constraints...
Zohran Mamdani described the September 11, 2001 experience as a personal one tied to his life as a Muslim in New York City, saying family members felt less safe wearing visible Muslim dress afterward,...
The CIA was a central actor in many of the Obama-era drone campaigns in the Middle East, operating secret bases, conducting strikes against high-value targets, and participating in the administration’...
The Obama administration relied on internal Justice Department legal memoranda and a public, executive-branch framework that characterized members of al‑Qaida and “associated forces” as continuing imm...
Global reactions to President Barack Obama’s drone strike policies combined restrained diplomatic support from key allies with growing public and institutional criticism on legality, transparency, and...
The claim that the Obama administration failed to provide to Congress about drone strikes is contested and depends on which strikes, which legal standards, and which timeframes are under review. Offic...