Syria drone strike. File photo dated 15/04/2014 of a Ground Contol Station for the Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) Reaper at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire as two British citizens who were fighting for Islamic State (IS) were killed in an RAF drone strike in Syria which was carried out without parliamentary approval, David Cameron has said. Issue date: Monday September 7, 2015. A third militant was also killed in the August 21 strike on a car in IS stronghold Raqqa, in what the Prime Minister described as an "act of self defence" against the primary British target who was planning "specific and barbaric" terrorist attacks in his homeland. See PA story POLITICS IS. Photo credit should read: Rui Vieira/PA Wire URN:24024327

Former Drone Operators Say They Were “Horrified” By Cruelty of Assassination Program

Four ex-pilots say the program and its many abuses contribute to the spread of terrorism.

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