US airstrike on al Qaeda training camp ‘kills 50’ – biggest Pentagon attack in Yemen for five years
US jets kill at least 40 AQAP fighters in eastern Yemen.
Drone strikes in Yemen
Drone strikes and covert operations in Yemen.
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Podcast: Amid the fog of war, do we actually know who belongs to al Qaeda in Yemen now?
Shabwa, Yemen – Flickr/dianadrz Distinguishing between militants in Yemen and those merely associated with them is getting harder as the country’s war drags on, correspondent Iona Craig told this week’s Drone News. In conversation with the Open Society Justice Initiative’s Amrit Singh, … Continued
Podcast: what do hostage deaths in Pakistan mean for US drone policy?
The Bureau’s drones team discuss the news that three more US citizens were killed in a January drone strike in Pakistan.
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Nine young children killed: The full details of botched US raid in Yemen
Working with a journalist who visited the targeted village of al Yakla five days after the raid and talked to nine of the survivors, we have collected the names and ages of all 25 civilians killed as reported by those who live there. Nine children under the age of 13 were among the victims.
Yemen: Reported US covert actions 2014
Dataset: The Bureau’s database on reported CIA and JSOC air strikes and other covert actions in Yemen.