The Guardian view on armed drones: a new code for a new form of warfare | Editorial

Drone warfare is both lethal and real. Governments, including the UK, must stop looking in the other direction. An international legal code is the best hope of a rules-based approachDrones are us. Most weeks of the year, western drone strikes are used to kill terror suspects in several parts of the world’s most troubled zones – Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen prominent among them. Most of the drone strikes are American, but the US has long lost its monopoly of this very 21st