In general, an adult male herding sheep would represent a "yellow flag" to military targeters, Bryant said. Investigators likely concluded personnel acted in compliance based on a "fog of war" explanation. "U.S. instances of civilian harm and botched ...
The United States is exaggerating the presence of the Islamic State (Daesh) in Afghanistan, said Abdulhaq Wasiq, a member of the Taliban’s political office. Wasiq, in reaction to the US military's drone strike in Nangarhar against Daesh on Friday, said the United States has no right to c...
The US military has killed over 2,500 people with drones in Pakistan An USAF General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in the Belgrade Aviation Museum. Shot down during NATO airstrikes on Serbia in 1999. (Photo : Wikimedia) By JG Vibes | October 15, 2013...Us Military Has Killed Over...
A US drone strike in Baghdad killed the senior commander of a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi militia, the latest retaliatory move by American forces following an attack on a base that killed three US soldiers last month. The US military’s central command said Wednesday’s strike killed a Kataib...
US military releases video said to show impact of drone strike on Houthi rebelsThe U.S. military on Wednesday said it had conducted several days of strikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The strikes included U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy aircraft, including the Navy’s F-35C stealth ...
US military advisers eventually arrived in the city to assist Afghan military commanders at their headquarters, helping to call in drone strikes that killed some 28 Taliban fighters, according to O’Donnell. He said US troops also arrived to advise Afghan commando units involved in the counterattack...
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are launching attacks despite a month of U.S.-led airstrikes. This week they seriously damaged a ship in a strategically important strait and downed an American drone worth tens of millions of dollars.
Still, Nazir outraged many Pakistanis in June when he announced that he would not allow any polio vaccinations in territory under his control until the U.S. stops drone attacks in the region. Washington wants Pakistan to launch a military operation in North Waziristan, believed to be the last...
United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has said US media reports that the US is contemplating drone strikes on Chinese islands in the South China Sea go against the facts, Ministry of National Defense spokesman Senior Colonel Wu Qian said on Thursday. Wu said Esper had clarified the issu...
The US has however faced equal criticism on the alleged lack of transparency of its drone warfare programmes in the targeted elimination of suspected terrorists. The United States military is seeking powers to carry out covert drone strikes in Kenya, a far-reaching proposal that ...