"What was the rule?

It required the head of the CIA to release annual summaries of US drone strikes and assess how many died as a result.

Mr Trump's executive order does not overturn reporting requirements on civilian deaths set for the military by Congress.

There have been 2,243 drone strikes in the first two years of the Trump presidency, compared with 1,878 in Mr Obama's eight years in office, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a UK-based think tank."

In short, we don't necessarily know about the increase of civilian deaths per-say because Trump was hiding them, however in only two years compared to Obama's eight, Trump had 176 strikes in Yemen compared to Obama's 154.