Monthly Updates on the Covert War

Monthly Updates on the Covert War

The monthly updates from the Bureau on the covert war.

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An MQ-9 Reaper equipped with an extended range modification sits on the ramp on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Dec. 6, 2015. The Reaper is an armed, multimission, medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft used primarily as an intelligence collection asset and also against dynamic execution targets. The modification allows for 20 to 40 percent additional flight time.

CIA drone strikes in Pakistan fall to lowest level in 8 years, Bureau’s annual report reveals

January 7, 2016 by Jack Serle - No comments

The drones hit Pakistan’s tribal areas 13 times last year, killing between 60 and 85 people.

General John Campbell briefs the Pentagon and Kabul press corps with a summary of the findings of the investigation into the October 3 Kunduz hospital strike

US drone war, November 2015: American troops in Afghanistan and Somalia supported by new strikes

December 1, 2015 by Jack Serle and Abigail Fielding-Smith - 1 Comment

The November update on the US covert war on terror from the Bureau.

Kunduz, Afghanistan, October 14, 2015 The aftermath of the U.S. airstrike on the Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) hospital in Kunduz that took place on October 3 that killed 22 people. The main hospital building, housing the emergency room, blood bank, intensive care unit, and out patient department, was heavily bombed in near continuous barrage for more than one hour, according to witnesses. Today MSF announced they had requested that the the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission be activated to investigate the bombing. (Photo: Victor Blue/MSF)

At least 80 US airstrikes hit Afghanistan in October: The White House’s covert drone and air war – monthly update

November 2, 2015 by Jack Serle - No comments

A monthly update on events in the US covert war in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia

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.

See the latest US strikes in Pakistan or Yemen.

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Six-month update: US covert actions in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia

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Events in the first half of 2013 in the US’s covert campaigns in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

Emerging from the shadows: US covert drone strikes in 2012

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Civilian deaths down in Pakistan as strikes soar in Yemen.

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