Sec. 1072. Annual report on strikes undertaken by the United States against terrorist targets outside areas of active hostilities
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Not later than May 1 of each year, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the number of strikes undertaken by the United States against terrorist targets outside areas of active hostilities during the preceding calendar year, as well as assessments of combatant and non-combatant deaths resulting from those strikes. The report required by subsection
(a)shall include— information obtained from relevant agencies regarding the general sources of information and methodology used to conduct the assessments of combatant and non-combatant deaths; to the extent feasible and appropriate, the general reasons for discrepancies between post-strike assessments from the United States and credible reporting from nongovernmental organizations regarding non-combatant deaths resulting from strikes undertaken by the United States against terrorist targets outside areas of active hostilities. In preparing a report under this section, the Secretary shall review relevant and credible post-strike all-source reporting, including such information from nongovernmental sources, for the purpose of ensuring that this reporting is available to and considered by relevant agencies in their assessment of deaths. The report required under subsection
(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.