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Changes in US drone strike civilian casualties under the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations
No credible reporting indicates that former President Barack Obama has been arrested; multiple fact-checks and news agencies have debunked viral claims and AI-generated videos purporting to show such ...
The best-documented, repeatable figure in the provided reporting is that U.S. forces dropped at least 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone, a tally compiled from U.S. defense data and highlighted by analysts su...
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...
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...
Government tallies published under the Obama administration reported only dozens to low‑hundreds of civilian deaths from drone strikes outside active war zones, while independent trackers routinely pr...
Critics—including human rights NGOs, opinion writers and some academics—have labeled several Obama-era policies as potential war crimes, most prominently the expanded drone strike program, U.S. suppor...
There is no reliable evidence in the provided reporting that Barack Obama himself coined a distinctive nickname for wars; instead, the phrase "Obama’s wars" has been used by journalists, critics and c...
A survey of prominent critiques finds Barack Obama’s presidency was marred by a string of policy choices and controversies that disappointed progressives, alarmed civil‑libertarians, and energized con...
Different casualty trackers produce divergent estimates of civilian deaths from U.S. air and drone campaigns because they use distinct sources and methods: independent NGOs such as the Bureau of Inves...
After Obama, Congressional action and executive policy shifts—notably reporting mandates in 2017 and subsequent decentralization of strike approvals under Trump—were the principal legal developments a...