Yemen: Reported US covert actions 2017
Dataset: The US aerial campaign continues in Yemen in its fifteenth year.
Dataset: The US aerial campaign continues in Yemen in its fifteenth year.
The Ministry of Defence announced plans to buy a new fleet of Predator drones from the US last April, stating the total cost would be £415m. Now the US says the estimated cost is £802m.
Senior al Qaeda leader Faruq al Qatani was killed in a “precision strike” on October 23 in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, the Pentagon has confirmed. A second strike that day is believed to have killed Bilal al Utabi, another senior al … Continued
The deaths amount to the biggest confirmed loss of civilian life in a single American strike in Afghanistan since the attack on the Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz last October.
In an unprecedented moment of transparency during a 14 year covert war, US officials have met the family of an accidental drone strike victim to explain what happened and apologise.
Somali officials have claimed that the US killed 22 local soldiers and civilians in a drone strike that hit the north-central city of Galkayo late last month.
See Get the data: Drone wars for up to date figures on drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
For information on how we compiled the data, see the methodology.
Who is dying in Pakistan drone strikes? See the Bureau’s Naming the Dead project.
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