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RT
April 28, 2018
Amnesty International calls on Europeans to come clean about aiding unlawful US drone strikes ... countries, which are affected by the US drone program – starting from 2015, at least 137 civilians have been killed by drones in Afghanistan, while the maximum number of casualties might amount to 332.
Amnesty International
April 18, 2018
As the Trump administration prepares to further expand the USA's lethal drone programme, increasing the risk of civilian casualties and unlawful killings, Amnesty International is calling on four European countries to urgently overhaul the crucial operational and intelligence assistance they provide to theÃâà...
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (blog)
April 16, 2018
This is an extract from the Bureau's report, Naming The Dead, published in April 2018, written by Jack Serle. The phenomenal assassination tool that is the attack drone was born of frustration – the inability of the US to kill Osama bin Laden. The CIA and its Afghan militia allies were pretty sure they knewÃâà...
The Nation.
April 14, 2018
American Air Strikes in Syria Do Nothing to Further Justice for the Victims of the Attack on Douma .... or even in some cases applaud, the killing of Syrian and Iraqi civilians by US drones and bombers, of Palestinian journalists and children by US-armed Israeli sharpshooters, of Yemeni families by Saudi andÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 11, 2018
A suspected chemical attack hit a small town in Eastern Ghouta, killing dozens and infecting nearly 500 victims – some women and children – with chemical attack symptoms on Saturday. US President Donald Trump today issued a fierce warning to Russia and to Syrian president Bashir al-Assad throughÃâà...
The Nation
April 6, 2018
DBA President Khawaja Irfanul Haq led the rally. The protesting lawyers marched on main inter-city roads. They wore black arm bandages and were carrying banners and placards. They expressed complete solidarity with victims and their grieved families in Afghanistan and Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The New Yorker
April 5, 2018
The A.U. has never released casualty figures, but estimates run to several thousand. Building on the A.U.'s success, the Obama .... Across Mogadishu, clan leaders and residents also whisper about growing numbers of civilian casualties in U.S. drone strikes. The exact number of deaths is unknown—AlÃâà...
ThinkProgress
April 3, 2018
While officials say the casualties were Taliban fighters, locals speaking to ThinkProgress say all of the killed and injured were civilians. ... Last May, a U.S. drone strike in the district killed Mullah Abdul Salam Akhund, the Taliban's shadow governor in Kunduz who had been instrumental in the group's briefÃâà...
Just Security
April 3, 2018
During 2013 and 2014, I worked on a team researching civilian victims of U.S. drone strikes. We visited areas and villages in different parts of Yemen that had been affected by U.S. actions. We interviewed witnesses, survivors, doctors, and local social leaders. We inspected the scenes of the attacks, theÃâà...
Toward Freedom
February 25, 2018
Today, for those living under constant US drone strikes, the clear blue sky brings death and destruction; moving clouds are seen as a hiding place for drone predators and at night, every star becomes a potential killer. 'Life became unbearable especially at night,' said Halimo Ali, a drone refugee, who nowÃâà...
The National
February 12, 2018
The deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban has been killed in a US drone strike, the militant group said in a statement on Monday, as Washington continues to intensify attacks ... More bombing almost invariably means more civilian casualties, which could further mobilise Afghans against the United States.
DAWN.com
February 8, 2018
PESHAWAR: Three suspected militants were killed in a US drone strike at a compound close to the Afghan border in North Waziristan Agency on Thursday, ... On Jan 17, two suspected militants were killed and another was injured when US drones fired missiles at some locations on both sides of theÃâà...
Gizmodo
February 7, 2018
The Russians have been particularly interested in US drone technology over the last few years, targeting contractors who work on projects like the new-generation US Reaper made by General Atomics and the US Air Force's uncrewed X-37B, an experimental ... Agencies like the FBI rarely tell the victims.
Antiwar.com
February 6, 2018
The attack, which took place on January 28, was in a remote part of Shabwa. The victims were family members in a vehicle, who went looking for a missing child in the Said District. The slain were not members of any political or religious organizations. They were a bunch of guys in a car though, and whenÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
February 6, 2018
Yemenis took to the streets of the southern governorate of Shabwa after a US drone strike killed at least seven civilians in late January, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. The strike targeted a car carrying six civilians reportedly searching for a missing child in southern Yemen. The “victims were all innocentÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 5, 2018
Saleh al-Aishi al-Ateeqi, a relative of one of the victims who organised the protest, told local media that "the victims were all innocent civilians who had nothing to do with any political or religious organisation." Speaking at a protest in the city of Ateq on Sunday, al-Ateeqi blamed the Arab coalition at war withÃâà...
Antiwar.com
February 2, 2018
As is so often the case, provincial officials say they believe every single casualty was a Taliban. ... The two strikes hit the same area, with the first strike hitting a group of people, and a second strike launched an hour later when more people had gathered to tend to the casualties from the first strike.
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
19 NGOs urge European States to refrain from assisting in US drone strikes that may violate international law and to implement safeguards ... already inadequate Obama-era restrictions on use of force meant to minimize civilian casualties and violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.
