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UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Ben Emmerson told reporters on Sunday that the US government must allow an independent investigation of the legality of its drone strike policy. The US has received heavy criticism recently for...

Pakistan Ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman on Friday called on the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to stop using drone strikes in a video conference debate with White House War Adviser Douglas...

US lawmakers on Tuesday expressed concern over the use of drone strikes. At a hearing in the US House Committee on Homeland Security lawmakers called on Congress and the Department of Homeland Security to...

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the US government's targeted killing of three US citizens in drone strikes. Senior al Qaeda...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions continued to criticize US drone strikes on Thursday, saying that in some cases the attacks may constitute war crimes. In addressing the 20th Session of the...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday filed a memorandum on behalf of the Obama administration rejecting a request to reveal information about the targeted killing program against suspected terrorists and...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions told reporters Wednesday that after a two-day dialogue with US officials about legal concerns over drone-strike killings, the US has failed to directly address any of his...

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that the Supreme Court's recent refusal to hear appeals from detainees at Guantanamo Bay represents a significant step away from the rights secured for them in Boumediene...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions published a report , released Tuesday, asking the US to clarify its policy of targeted killing of terrorism suspects through raids and unmanned drone strikes. Christof...

US Attorney General Eric Holder appointed two US Attorneys on Friday to investigate recent "leaks" of classified information. The investigation will run concurrently with an FBI investigation, and the US Attorneys are empowered to prosecute...