Drone strikes

White House reveals number of civilian deaths from drone strikes

In the same time span, the administration said between 2,372 and 2,581 militants had been taken out by drones.

The information was released as part of an effort by Obama to introduce more transparency into a controversial military tactic that he has defended as necessary to fight terror.

Human rights groups, however, were unsatisfied by the government's disclosed figures, which came in far lower than independent estimates of civilian causalities.