US Denies Involvement In Drone Strike That Killed Anti-ISIS Fighters

Eight fighters from Hezbollah, who were engaged in battles to drive ISIS from Deir ez-Zor, were killed by a drone strike in the eastern Syrian province.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
A Hezbollah fighter stands on a hill next to the group's yellow flag in the fields of the Syrian town of Assal al-Ward in the mountainous region of Qalamoun, Syria. (AP/Bassem Mroue)

At least eight Hezbollah fighters were killed in a drone strike in the eastern Syrian desert, where pro-government forces are engaged in a grinding battle against Daesh (ISIS), a monitoring group said Monday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a drone struck a position of the Lebanese militant group, which is fighting

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Drone Strike Hits Tribal Areas As US-Pakistan Tensions Rise

The strike was the fifth to have taken place this year. Strikes resumed in Pakistan in March, nearly two months after President Trump came into office, following a nine-month hiatus.

Jessica Purkiss
By Jessica Purkiss
A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper taxis down an Afghanistan runway. (Photo: U.S. Air Force)

A US drone strike on Friday, September 15th, killed three men in the tribal area of Kurram, which lies on the border with Afghanistan, according to government and security officials as well as tribal sources. The attack is the first since President Trump announced his new strategy for Afghanistan in a speech last month. In it he vowed to "no

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US Drone Kills Two Children In Yemen

These are the first confirmed civilian deaths in US strikes against Yemen over the past week, though a number of wounded civilians were also reported.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Yemen US drone war

(REPORT) --- Continuing a string of regular drone strikes against targets in rural Yemen dating back to last week, US drones today attacked and killed a pair of young boys on a road outside the village of Yakla. There were no indications any combatants were anywhere near the targeted spot. The US, naturally, did not immediately comment on the

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Botched Raid Frays US-Yemen Relations As Slaughter Continues

The raid, conducted on January 29th, killed numerous civilians including the eight-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki.

Dan Wright
By Dan Wright
Photos which allegedly show the home that was the target of the Navy Seal Team 6 raid, published by local Yemeni newspaper, al-Mashhad al-Yemeni.

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. A botched raid by U.S. Special Forces last month that left numerous civilians dead has led, according to The New York Times, to the government in Yemen withdrawing permission for the United States to run ground missions against alleged terrorist groups in the country. At today’s press conference,

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Yemen Reports First US Drone Strikes Under Trump

Marking the first strikes under Trump, the drone strikes may suggest that the policy of drone attacks against targets in nations in which the US is not at war is going to continue beyond the Obama Administration.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Debris and smoke rise after a Saudi-led airstrike hit an army base, in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. (AP/Hani Mohammed)

(REPORT) --- A pair of US drone strikes in Yemen’s Bayda Province have killed at least 10 people over the weekend, according to Yemeni officials, marking the first drone strikes to be conducted under President Trump, who was inaugurated on Friday. Both drone strikes were in roughly the same rural area, with the first killing three “suspects” on

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Obama Carried Out Ten Times More Drone Strikes Than Bush

Obama oversaw more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency.

Jack Serle
Jessica Purkiss
By Jack Serle
And Jessica Purkiss
The number of civilians killed by United States drone strikes is at least 500, nearly all of the strikes were a part of the Obama administration’s targeted assassination policy. (Photo: (Image: Lance Page/Truthout; Adapted: Amanda Currier, Nathan Barry/Flickr-CC)

There were ten times more air strikes in the covert war on terror during President Barack Obama’s presidency than under his predecessor, George W. Bush. Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan,

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