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Consortium News
April 3, 2018
I turn now to Afghan and Pakistani deaths in the ongoing 2001 U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. In part two, I will ..... The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that 2,515 to 4,026 people have been killed in U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, but that is a small fraction of total war deaths in Pakistan. CrawfordÃâà...
New York Times
April 2, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan military helicopters bombed a religious gathering in the northern province of Kunduz on Monday, killing at least 70 people and wounding 30 others, ... In May, an American drone strike in the district killed Mullah Abdul Salam, the Taliban “shadow governor” of Kunduz. In 2016Ãâà...
New York Times
March 24, 2018
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — When the Soviet Army pulled out of Afghanistan decades ago, it left behind rusty tanks, the wreckage of helicopters and a .... Mullah Abdul Salam, before his death in a United States drone strike last year, said Nassruddin Saadi, the chief of the Dasht-e-Archi district in KunduzÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 24, 2018
... militants including 12 foreigners have been killed in a drone strike in the Haska Mena district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Saturday. Sherin Agha Faqiri, spokesman for the 201st Selab Military Corps, told Pajhwok Afghan News foreign forces targeted the Daesh rebels in Awghaz andÃâà...
Business Standard
March 16, 2018
The latest round of airstrike comes after 15 Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants were killed in an airstrike in Kunar province last week. The airstrike also killed the chief of TTP Mullah Fazullah's son, according to the Afghan military forces. (This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and isÃâà...
The Express Tribune
March 12, 2018
The drone strike targeted the hideout of the Islamic State resulting in the death of terrorists. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE. Six Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in a US drone strike near the Pak-Afghan border on Monday, Express News reported. According to reports, the strike took place in the NangarharÃâà...
Democracy Now!
March 9, 2018
In Afghanistan, officials say at least seven people were killed and seven others wounded in a suicide attack in the capital Kabul today. Meanwhile, Pakistani officials say a suspected U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan killed more than 20 people on Wednesday.
Defense One
March 8, 2018
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed nearly two dozen militants, the Associated Press reports from Pakistan. Two missiles reportedly “hit a militant facility in neighboring Afghanistan, killing 21 insurgents, including the son of the head of the Pakistani Taliban” on Wednesday, according to “two PakistaniÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 8, 2018
Pakistani security officials on the Afghan border area also confirmed the drone strike and said most of the militants were getting suicide-bomber training when they were killed. Islamabad has for years has asked officials in Washington and Kabul to take action against Fazlullah and other Pakistani TalibanÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
March 7, 2018
Among those killed was an individual responsible for training suicide attackers, Ustad Yaseen, and multiple suicide bombers. Those killed in Wednesday's drone strike reportedly belonged to the Swat area of Pakistan. Coalition drone attacks have repeatedly targetted the regions along the Pak-AfghanÃâà...
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