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By Peter Lee for The Conversation The recent killing of Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri by CIA drone strike was the latest US response to 9/11. Politically, it amplified existing distrust between US leaders and the Taliban government in Afghanistan. The killing also exposed compromises in the 2020 Doha peace agreement between the US and the Taliban.
New weapons will require new rules of war – but there is little appetite for regulation.
It’s a week before Christmas and the mountains overlooking the UN’s Palais de Nations building in Geneva are covered in snow, making the wintry landscape look postcard perfect.
A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down” and “remotely engaged” human targets without its handlers’ say-so during a conflict in Libya last year, according to a United Nations report first covered by New Scientist this week. Whether there were any casualties remains unclear, but if confirmed, it would likely be the first recorded death carried out by an autonomous killer robot.