With the help of CIA spotters, the Peruvian air force shot down 15 small civilian aircraft suspected of carrying drugs, in many cases without warning and within two to three minutes of being ...

The force is 10 times the size of the covert elements of the CIA, comes with a cost of more than $900 million, and engages about 130 private companies in operations in locales like the Middle East ...

In contrast, leaked US intelligence documents recently obtained by news agency McClatchy show the CIA rarely admits to civilian deaths in Pakistan. Yet the internal document obtained by the ...

Civilian contractors used by the CIA at secret overseas facilities were involved in a series of detainee abuses and deaths in the years following the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq ...

But if the CIA misled Congress about torture, how can the committee be confident it's not misleading Congress about civilian deaths from drones? "That's a good question, actually," Feinstein said ...

It's the first time a civilian has been tried for overseas prisoner abuse. Prosecutors in federal court in Raleigh, N.C., say CIA contractor David Passaro repeatedly beat a military detainee who ...

While US law bars the Pentagon and the State Department from funding foreign militias involved in crimes against civilian populations, no such rule applies to the covert activities of the CIA.

The government has been tight-lipped — refusing even to confirm or deny the existence of any records relating to civilian casualties in CIA drone strikes. Last month, however, John Brennan, the White ...

TOR GHAR, Afghanistan — Months after the Obama administration declared combat operations over in Afghanistan, the CIA continues to ... has been implicated in civilian killings, torture ...

Determining the number of civilian casualties under such circumstances is a difficult task--even for the human rights groups that devote significant resources to doing so. If the CIA is simply ...

But this explanation leaves out a significant part of what the initial rule included — specifically, the mandated reporting of civilian casualties from CIA airstrikes, not just those carried out ...

Former Acting CIA Director Mike Morell predicted that Gen ... "There will be dead Americans -- dead civilian Americans as a result of this, possibly over the next few days -- in any place where ...