by Karen McVeigh for The Guardian.

The family of a 67-year-old midwife from a remote village in North Waziristan told lawmakers on Tuesday about her death and the "CIA drone" they say was responsible. Their harrowing accounts marked the first time Congress had ever heard from civilian victims of an alleged US drone strike.

By Joseph Straw for the New York Daily News.

WASHINGTON — The son of a 68-year-old Pakistani woman killed in an apparent errant U.S. drone strike pleaded on Capitol Hill Tuesday for an end to the campaign.

By Foreign Staff Reporter for The Telegraph.

A Pakistani teenager moved a translator to tears on Capitol Hill as he spoke of the moment his grandmother was killed in a US drone strike.

On Wednesday, November 6th Jemima Khan, Co-Executive Producer of Unmanned: America's Drone Wars speaks with BBC's Richard Bacon. 

By Mark Matthews for the Orlando Sentinel.

WASHINGTON — It's rare for Congress to grant an audience to foreigners claiming to be victims of the U.S. military, and rarer still if they hail from countries that U.S. officials connect to terrorism.

By Naureen Khan for Al Jazeera America.

Nine-year-old Nabila Rehman rested her head on the table.

By Dana Milbank for Washington Post.

From Washington, the drone-warfare program looks almost aseptic: Remote-controlled aircraft fire with precision on targets half a world away.

By Bailey Cahall and Emily Schneider for Foreign Policy Magazine.

A Pakistani family whose account of a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan was cited last week in Amnesty International's report on the covert program arrived in Washington on Tuesday, intent on putting a human face on the number of civilian casualties (AFP).  According to Nabila Rehman, she was picking okra with her family in their garden last October when a drone strike killed her grandmother and injured seven other people; the U.S. government has never officially acknowledged the strike.  The Rehmans, who will appear at a press conference with U.S. Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) on Tuesday, are also featured in a new documentary by the Brave New Foundation called "Unmanned: America's Drone Wars." 

By Melinda Henneberger for the Washington Post.

What 13-year-old Zubair Ur Rehman remembers most about the day his grandmother was killed is how “particularly blue” the sky was in the Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan. Yes, just as New Yorkers say of 9/11.

By Cole Stangler for In These Times.

On Tuesday morning, almost 10 years after the U.S. government began using drones to target suspected militants in Pakistan—one of the tools of the War on Terror that the Obama administration has embraced and expanded since taking office in 2009—Congress heard from some of the policy’s innocent victims for the first time.