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02.09.15

Drone Warfare

Monthly drone report, August 2015: 32 US strikes hit Afghanistan alone

The August update on the US covert war on terror.

03.08.15

Drone Warfare

US drone wars in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia: Monthly report, July 2015

US strikes continued in July in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia – but not Pakistan.

30.07.15

Privatised War

Identifying the companies involved in Pentagon drone operations: The contracts, how we got the data

Using computational journalism to analyse contractors involved in Pentagon drone operations

30.07.15

Privatised War

Revealed: The private firms tracking terror targets at heart of US drone wars

How the US Air Force is using private sector companies to help analyse ‘insatiable demand’ for drone war video intelligence

30.07.15

Privatised War

Reaping the rewards: How private sector is cashing in on Pentagon’s ‘insatiable demand’ for drone war intelligence

Concerns over increasing use of private contractors by US Air Force to help monitor and analyse intelligence from Pentagon drone operations

24.07.15

Drone Warfare

Podcast: Warfare expert Peter Singer talks about his new ‘smash-up’ book Ghost Fleet

In this week’s Drone News, Abigail Fielding-Smith interviewed military affairs expert Peter Singer on his new book, Ghost Fleet, which manages to be both a treatise on the future of war and a novel. “...

02.07.15

Drone Warfare

Podcast: Amid the fog of war, do we actually know who belongs to al Qaeda in Yemen now?

Shabwa, Yemen – Flickr/dianadrz Distinguishing between militants in Yemen and those merely associated with them is getting harder as the country’s war drags on, correspondent Iona Craig told this week...

05.06.15

Drone Warfare

Podcast: “Sudden Justice” author Chris Woods on CIA accountability and the politics of US drone wars

Giving the US drone programme to the Pentagon may not increase accountability, as many expect.

15.05.15

Drone Warfare

Revealed: Britain has flown 301 Reaper drone missions against ISIS in Iraq, firing at least 102 missiles

Data from Drone Wars UK shows RAF Reapers carried out more than two-fifths of the strikes in Iraq.

29.04.15

Drone Warfare

Podcast: what do hostage deaths in Pakistan mean for US drone policy?

The Bureau’s drones team discuss the news that three more US citizens were killed in a January drone strike in Pakistan.

01.04.15

Drone Warfare

Monthly Drone Report, March 2015: US drone strikes drop 50% as chaos envelops Yemen

Total US drone strikes across Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen almost halved in the first quarter of 2015 compared with the final three months of last year, according to the latest monthly res...