US intelligence has estimated the victims of the drone strikes during the years of the Obama presidency

Over the years, the presidency of Barack Obama in the attacks of us drones (UAVs) outside the areas of fighting killed between 64 and 117 civilians in different countries. About it reports Associated Press with reference to the report of the Director of national intelligence James Clapper.

According to the Agency, the document does not say where it came under attack, but the Ministry of defence and the CIA have conducted operations in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya. The data do not include statistics on strikes in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan — countries that the USA consider areas of active hostilities. In the raids with the use of drones were destroyed from 2803 3022 to militants.

3 January it was reported that the ongoing US-led coalition bombing in Iraq and Syria led to the deaths of at least 188 civilians.

At the end of October last year, Amnesty International published data according to which in Syria for two years, the victims of air strikes, the U.S. air force and their allies were at least 300 civilians. At the same time, the coalition confirmed the death of only one person.

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