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Drone strikes in Pakistan. Between 2004 and 2018, the United States government attacked thousands of targets in northwest Pakistan using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) operated by the United States Air Force under the operational control of the Central Intelligence Agency 's Special Activities Division.
- List of drone strikes in Pakistan - Wikipedia
27 June 2011: Missile strikes from two U.S. drones killed at...
- 2024 Iranian missile strikes in Pakistan - Wikipedia
Casualties. 2 children killed. 4 civilians injured. On 16...
- Civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes - Wikipedia
The first known U.S. drone strike in Pakistan was June 19,...
- List of drone strikes in Pakistan - Wikipedia
27 June 2011: Missile strikes from two U.S. drones killed at least 21 suspected militants in Pakistan's South Waziristan on Monday, Pakistani officials said. The first strike against a moving vehicle in Ghalmandi Panga village reportedly killed eight suspected militants.
Casualties. 2 children killed. 4 civilians injured. On 16 January 2024, Iran carried out a series of missile and drone strikes within Pakistan 's Balochistan province, claiming that it had targeted the Iranian Baloch militant group Jaish ul-Adl.
2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes. On 16 January 2024, Iran conducted a series of missile strikes in Pakistan, asserting that it had targeted militants of the Baloch separatist group Jaish ul-Adl in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. This attack occurred one day after a similar series of Iranian missile strikes in Iraq and Syria, which ...
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Independent estimates
Taken together, independent estimates from the non-governmental organizations New America and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism suggest that civilians made up between 7.27% to 15.47% of deaths in U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia from 2009–2016, with a broadly similar rate from 2017–2019.Civilian casualties as a percentage of overall deaths were highest in Yemen and lowest in Somalia. The New America figures report that: 1. The first known U.S. drone strike in Pakistan w...
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
The Office of the Director of National Intelligencereported that: 1. Between January 20, 2009, and December 31, 2015: 473 U.S. strikes "against terrorist targets outside areas of active hostilities" (i.e., outside Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria) with between 2,372 and 2,581 combatant deaths and between 64 and 116 non-combatant deaths, i.e., a civilian casualty rate of 2.63–4.30%. 2. For the calendar year 2016: 53 U.S. strikes "against terrorist targets outside areas of active hostilities" (i.e....
Assessing civilian versus militant casualties is difficult. The New America count relies on multiple sources, such as reporting from international and local journalists, corroborating evidence from social media, reports from non-governmental organization (NGOs), and official reports from the U.S. military.The Bureau of Investigative Journalism coun...
During the Obama administration, proposed U.S. drone strikes in locations outside active war zones (i.e., in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia) required high-level approval. The Obama administration process for approving drone strikes in such locations featured centralized, high-level oversight, based on intelligence about individuals suspected of terrorism...
On July 1, 2016, President Barack Obama signed an executive order requiring annual accounting of civilian and enemy casualties in U.S. drone strikes outside war zones ("Areas Outside of Active Hostilities"), and setting a deadline of May 1 each year for the release of such report. However, soon after taking office, President Donald Trump designated...
After more than 30 UAV-based strikes hit civilian homes in Afghanistan in 2012, President Hamid Karzai demanded that such attacks end, but the practice continues in areas of Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carterhas criticized such use of UAVs: "We don't know how many hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed in thes...
In October 2013, the Pakistani government revealed that since 2008, civilian casualties made up 3 percent of deaths from drone strikes. Since 2008, it alleges there have been 317 drone strikes that killed 2,160 Islamic militants and 67 civilians. This is less than previous government and independent organization calculations of collateral damage fr...
An attack by the US in December 2013, in a wedding procession in Yemen, killed 12 men and wounded at least 15 other people, including the bride. US and Yemeni officials said the dead were members of the armed group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), but witnesses and relatives told Human Rights Watchthe casualties were civilians. Witnesses a...
There are several vocal critics of the use of UAVs to track and kill terrorists and militants. A major criticism of drone strikes is that they result in excessive collateral damage. David Kilcullen and Andrew Exum wrote in the New York Timesthat drone strikes "have killed about 14 terrorist leaders". It has also killed an unknown number of militant...
Between 2004 and 2018, the United States government attacked thousands of targets in northwest Pakistan using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) operated by the United States Air Force under the operational control of the Central Intelligence Agency 's Special Activities Division.
Pakistan became the fourth country after Israel, the US and the UK to use an armed drone in active combat. Before the Burraq was publicly unveiled for the first time, the Pakistani military reportedly conducted several strikes using the UCAV, as part of the Khyber-1 military operations in the Tirah Valley. See also
