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28.10.16

Drone Warfare

Sorry for killing your son, CIA tells drone strike victim’s family

In an unprecedented moment of transparency during a 14 year covert war, US officials have met the family of an accidental drone strike victim to explain what happened and apologise.

16.09.16

Drone Warfare

US pays €1m to Italian couple after killing their son in a drone strike

The payment to the family of an Italian aid worker killed in a CIA attack last year is the first confirmed example of the US paying relatives of a drone strike victim.

18.08.16

Drone Warfare

US Air Force has carried out two strikes a day against Taliban since June

Figures released to the Bureau provide firm evidence the US has intensified its fight against the Taliban despite officially ending combat operations against the group in 2014.

21.07.16

Drone Warfare

Infographic: The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan

Every CIA drone strike in Pakistan until the the end of 2015 has been mapped on an infographic to show where the attacks took place and the number of people killed in each strike.

01.07.16

Drone Warfare

Obama drone casualty numbers a fraction of those recorded by the Bureau

The number of civilian casualties recorded by the Bureau between January 2009 and the end of 2015 is six times higher than the US government’s figure.

16.06.16

Drone Warfare

US drones hit Taliban more than terrorist networks despite end of Afghan war

Most US airstrikes in Afghanistan this year in support of ground troops not targeting suspected terrorists.

23.03.16

Drone Warfare

US airstrike on al Qaeda training camp ‘kills 50’ – biggest Pentagon attack in Yemen for five years

US jets kill at least 40 AQAP fighters in eastern Yemen.

08.03.16

Drone Warfare

Changes to how the Bureau calculates Afghan drone and air strike data

Changes to the Bureau’s Afghanistan data.

07.03.16

Drone Warfare

Unprecedented death toll from US air strike in Somalia

The US flattened an al Shabaab training camp in central Somalia and killed around 150 people, the Pentagon said today.

18.02.16

Drone Warfare

US airstrikes in Afghanistan killing civilians at greatest rate for seven years, new figures show

UN and US data show leap in civilian casualty rate from airstrikes in Afghanistan.

18.02.16

Drone Warfare

The Mystery of Khost: Did a US drone kill 14 innocent Afghans as they prepared a funeral?

The full feature on what happened in Khost on June 5 2015.

03.02.16

Drone Warfare

Naming the dead: Only 10 of scores killed by US drones in Pakistan last year have been identified

The names for all 10 came from either terrorist propaganda or the US government.

07.01.16

Drone Warfare

CIA drone strikes in Pakistan fall to lowest level in 8 years, Bureau’s annual report reveals

The drones hit Pakistan’s tribal areas 13 times last year, killing between 60 and 85 people.

11.12.15

Drone Warfare

Army moves Watchkeeper drone training to tropics for winter after flying problems in UK weather

Watchkeeper drones will be sent to Ascension Island’s RAF base for next eight months (Crown Copyright) The Army has moved to accelerate the training of pilots for its £1.2bn Watchkeeper spy drones by...

01.12.15

Drone Warfare

US drone war, November 2015: American troops in Afghanistan and Somalia supported by new strikes

The November update on the US covert war on terror from the Bureau.

02.11.15

Drone Warfare

At least 80 US airstrikes hit Afghanistan in October: The White House’s covert drone and air war – monthly update

A monthly update on events in the US covert war in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia

12.10.15

Drone Warfare

PODCAST: How Scavenger drone became Protector – and why Watchkeeper ‘not value for money’

Picture: MoD/Cpl Mark Larner In this week’s Drone News, Jack Serle and the Guardian’s Alice Ross discuss the Bureau’s investigation into Watchkeeper, the British Army’s “affordable” £1.2bn drone, whic...

05.10.15

Drone Warfare

Monthly drone report: Total drone strikes under Obama in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen now 491 after September attacks

A monthly update on the US covert drone war.

02.10.15

Drone Warfare

Watchkeepers: Boxed up, barely used and four years late

Hailed by ministers as an “affordable solution,” the price of the contract has jumped from £800m to £1.2bn - and ten years after the deal was signed, only 33 of the fleet have been delivered.

07.09.15

Drone Warfare

RAF drone strike: Syria deaths means at least 10 Britons now killed by drones in West’s war on terror

British Islamic State fighters killed in UK drone strike in Syria.

Sorry for killing your son, CIA tells drone strike victim’s family

US pays €1m to Italian couple after killing their son in a drone strike

US Air Force has carried out two strikes a day against Taliban since June

Infographic: The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan

Obama drone casualty numbers a fraction of those recorded by the Bureau

US drones hit Taliban more than terrorist networks despite end of Afghan war

US airstrike on al Qaeda training camp ‘kills 50’ – biggest Pentagon attack in Yemen for five years

Changes to how the Bureau calculates Afghan drone and air strike data

Unprecedented death toll from US air strike in Somalia

US airstrikes in Afghanistan killing civilians at greatest rate for seven years, new figures show

The Mystery of Khost: Did a US drone kill 14 innocent Afghans as they prepared a funeral?

Naming the dead: Only 10 of scores killed by US drones in Pakistan last year have been identified

CIA drone strikes in Pakistan fall to lowest level in 8 years, Bureau’s annual report reveals

Army moves Watchkeeper drone training to tropics for winter after flying problems in UK weather

US drone war, November 2015: American troops in Afghanistan and Somalia supported by new strikes

At least 80 US airstrikes hit Afghanistan in October: The White House’s covert drone and air war – monthly update

PODCAST: How Scavenger drone became Protector – and why Watchkeeper ‘not value for money’

Monthly drone report: Total drone strikes under Obama in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen now 491 after September attacks

Watchkeepers: Boxed up, barely used and four years late

RAF drone strike: Syria deaths means at least 10 Britons now killed by drones in West’s war on terror

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