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U.S. President Barack Obama has a new policy in the controversial of drones to kill suspected terrorists. Drones are unmanned aircraft that can be from the U.S. as well as from bases in or near war zones. Both the U.S. military and the CIA drones in their operations. Around 800 drone strikes have place in Afghanistan in the past two years. The CIA's of drones is in secrecy. Experts the agency has around 350 drone strikes in Pakistan and fewer than 100 in Yemen and Somalia since 2004. Around 3,000 people have been by drones since 2004. The New America Foundation that roughly 21 per cent of those were civilians.

President Obama said the U.S. would now only drone strikes as a last resort, when there is a “continuing and imminent” threat to the American people, and that there must be “near certainty that no civilians will be or ". Kenneth Roth from Human Rights Watch said: “A mere promise that the US will within established guidelines that remain secret little confidence that [it] is with international law.” Shahzad Akbar, a Pakistani lawyer for drone victims’ families, said: “The problem the same because there is no transparency and accountability for the CIA because it will inside the system and not be visible to outsiders.”