Washington: The US is shifting its huge fleet of drones from combat zones in Afghanistan and Pakistan to fresh frontiers, where these planes will spy on a melange of armed groups, drug runners, pirat

A US drone attack Saturday killed at least five militants in a remote Pakistani tribal town near the Afghanistan border, security officials said.

The drone fired two missiles on a compound in Shuweda

US drone strikes in Pakistan's restive tribal belts have killed nearly 2,400 suspected militants since the CIA launched the covert operations in 2004, according to a think-tank here.

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The prospect that thousands of drones could be patrolling U.S. skies by the end of this decade is raising the specter of a Big Brother government that peers into backyards and bedrooms.

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Founder of Pakistan’s nuclear programme Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan said on Wednesday that Pakistan has potential to shoot down US drones.

“No drones would come inside Pakistan and fire in Pakistan if Hamz

In a bid to save the CIA's drone campaign against al-Qaida in Pakistan, US officials offered key concessions to Pakistan's spy chief that included advance notice and limits on the types of targets. Bu

US has deployed a large number of drones over Syria to monitor Syrian military attack on the opposition forces and civilians, NBC News has reported.

Quoting Pentagon officials, the TV channel said t

Two US drone attacks struck Islamist militants in Pakistan's tribal badlands on Thursday, killing at least 13 fighters in North Waziristan near the Afghan border, officials said.

At least eight forei

One of Israel's most advanced drones – the size of a Boeing 737 – capable of flying as far as Iran crashed today during a test flight, the military said.

The Heron TP unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar today warned that the US would be responsible if Pakistan failed in the war on terrorism, a remark that comes in the backdrop of a move by American lawmakers to free