The United States' War on Terror may have transformed into a war of terror. According to reports released on Oct. 22 by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, the United States drone campaigns in Yemen and Pakistan have included several violations of international law, some of which may rise to the level of war crimes. These reports come on the heels of a UN investigation that claims at least 33 drone strikes around the world have resulted in civilian casualties and may have violated international law.

Such allegations, when added to the international backlash in response to revelations of NSA spying against both enemy and ally nations, suggest that the United States is in the process of isolating itself from the rest of the world. This will likely make it difficult for President Obama — whose 2009 Nobel Peace Prize is becomingly increasingly perverse — to find continuing international support for the War on Terror.

The Human Rights Watch report examines six unacknowledged air strikes — at least four of which were carried out by drones — that targeted members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen. These six air strikes, carried out between 2009–2013, killed 82 people, including at least 57 civilians.

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