US President Donald Trump give the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) secret new authority to conduct drone attacks against suspected militants, the Wall Street Journal reported late on Monday, citing US official.
The new authority represents a strong shift from the standard practice up to then, which was that the CIA used drones and other intelligence resources to locate suspected terrorists and then the military conducted the actual strike.
The CIA first used its new power in late February in strike on a senior Al-Qaeda leader in Syria, according to the report. The newspaper quoted US officials as saying that Trump's action specifically to operate in Syria.
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