WASHINGTON (CNN) --The Predator drone was designed to gather intelligence on enemy forces without putting U.S. pilots at risk, but it's also found a role as a deadly offensive weapon in America's ...

Author Mark Bowden writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Though unmanned, remote-controlled ... Later renamed the Predator, it quickly became the U.S. military's preferred surveillance tool.

The US State Department has approved the sale of eight MQ-9B Predator drones and a large package of bombs and missiles to Qatar in a deal valued at nearly $2 billion. The approval, announced ...