Civilian casualties in drone strikes?hereDawn
(Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone has struck Grozny, the capital of Russia's southern Chechnya region, and caused civilian casualties, state news agency RIA quoted Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov as saying on Wednesday. Kadyrov said the drone had struck the roof of a building housing a ...
On July 1, the White House for the first time released the civilian casualties of U.S. counterterrorism strikes overseas, saying that between 64 and 116 civilians were killed in 437 U.S. strikes conducted in countries including Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia from 2009 to 2015. However, ...
However, civilian casualties in the strikes have sparked anger in the country and among human rights groups. According to the nonpartisan public policy institute New America Foundation, the U.S. has launched 99 drone strikes in Yemen since 2002. There was no immediate U.S. comment on the stri...
Possible civilian casualties were reported within 20 minutes following the strike by U.S. military analysts, who assessed that at least three children were killed about two to three hours after the attack, the Times reported, citing the investigation. ...
you're going to justify it after the strike. Frankly, are there other measures that might be feasible to limit the threat in a way that would not be, that are non-kinetic. I think also have we taken every possible precaution to ensure that there are going to be no civilian casualties?
“It is a hard fact that US strikes have resulted in civilian casualties, a risk that exists in all wars,” said Obama. “For the families of those civilians, no words or legal construct can justify their loss. For me, and those in my chain of command, these deaths will haunt us as...
the United States conducted a counterterrorism operation against a significant Al Qaeda target in Afghanistan," the senior administration official told Fox News. "The operation was successful and there were no civilian casualties." The Biden administration closed the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and withdre...
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“The strike was conducted using a precision strike method from MQ-9 aircraft.” An “initial review of this strike indicates the potential for possible civilian casualties,” Urban added. “We abhor the loss of innocent life and take all possible measures to prevent them. The possibility...