Donald Trump's bombing nuclear sites in Iran, June 22, is perceived as a reckless violation of international law by some world leaders.
Who were the US presidents who ordered attacks overseas?
Donald Trump authorised countless drone attacks in Yemen (238 in 2017-2018), Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan; killing of Iran's General Qassem Soleimani, 2020: over 1,000 major air assaults on Yemen's Houthi rebels in 2025; Iran's nuclear facilities in 2025.
Joe Biden's 2024 Operation Poseidon Archer was launched against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
In 2022 a drone attack took out al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul.
In 8 years, Barack Obama ordered 563 air strikes, mostly by drones in 7 countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Syria.
Operation Neptune Spear took out Osama bin Laden.
In retaliation for 9/11, George W Bush ordered the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Bill Clinton's Operation Desert Fox saw 600 sorties into Iraq to destroy 'weapons of mass destruction'.
Strikes occurred in 1998 in Afghanistan and Sudan.
In 1999, he authorised a NATO bombing campaign against Serbia to stop ethnic violence in Kosovo.
George H W Bush launched Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
Operation El Dorado Canyon happpened on Ronald Reagan's watch -- air raids on Libyan military sites in 1986; the invasion of Grenada took place earlier, in 1983.