Hired through an online gig economy platform, workers unknowingly helped Google improve its artificial intelligence military-targeting software.
Israeli lawyers counseled that targeted killings should always be the exception, never the rule. But critical checks on the practice have evaporated.
A secret Israeli military police report offers direct evidence that four Palestinian children were killed by missiles fired from an armed Israeli drone.
Members of the Saudi-led coalition are ignoring their own procedures aimed at minimizing civilian casualties in Yemen, a U.S. intelligence report says.
Libya has served as a laboratory for new drone warfare tactics.
The tech giant announced it won't renew the contract after a barrage of internal and external pressure.
Google reportedly played down the size of the contract in discussions with uneasy employees, but leaked emails show the company expected revenue to grow rapidly.
MQ-9 Reapers may support operations in Libya and elsewhere in Africa.
Counterterror strikes have been eclipsed by the horrors of the Saudi-led war in Yemen, but U.S. drones are killing many people who have no Al Qaeda ties.
Google is providing assistance to the Defense Department's new algorithmic warfare initiative to apply artificial intelligence solutions to drone targeting.
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