Civilian Casualties

(5 children)

US Forces, Kenyan Military Forces

Al-Shabaab

Dhaytubako, Middle Juba, Somalia

LOCATION

At least two people, both reportedly al-Shabaab affiliated, were killed in a US drone strike on a vehicle in Jilib, Middle Juba region, international media reported. As of now, there are no reports about civilian harm. Senior al Shabaab commander Ibrahim Ali Abdi (aka Anta Anta) was killed in the attack, according to Abu Mohamed,

Summary

Baraawe, Lower Shabelle, Somalia

LOCATION

At least one and as many as seven al Shabaab militants were killed in a naval raid carried out by US forces in Barawe, Lower Shabelle, international media reported. There were no reports of civilian harm. It was not at first clear who was the target of the raid. Reports varied from an unnamed Chechen;

Summary

Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)

Small arms and light weapons

1–7

الظهي, Al Dahir, Surt, Libya

LOCATION

Wissam Salem reported on Twitter that four people were killed and 15 more injured in an airstrike near Sirte. Salem didn’t elaborate if the victims were civilians or combattants. However, other sources claimed that the casualties resulted either from a car bomb or mortars. Wady Dynar reported that the explosions heard in Al Dahir in

Summary

جيليب, Jilib, Middle Juba, Somalia

LOCATION

Drones and helicopters reportedly attacked outside the town of Jilib, in Somalia’s Middle Juba region, killing three people and seriously wounding seven, according to locals interviewed by the Kenyan group Journalists for Justice. Of the three people killed, two were women and one an elderly man, and of those wounded, three were reportedly children. As

Summary

(2 women1 man)

US Forces, Kenyan Military Forces

Al-Shabaab

Kol, near Bula Xawa, Gedo, Somalia

LOCATION

Two airstrikes by an unknown belligerent hit the nomadic settlement of Kol, near the city of Bulla-Xama, in southwestern Somalia’s Gedo region, killing a mother and her two children and injuring five others, a young man who fled the settlement following the strike told the Kenyan group Journalists for Justice. According to a report, Black

Summary

(2 children1 woman)

3 named, 1 familiy identified

وادي عبيدة, Wadi Obeida, Ma'rib, Yemen

LOCATION

A suspected US drone strike in Wadi Obeida, Ma’rib governorate on January 19th 2013 between 11 o’clock at night and midnight killed up to four civilians, with conflicting reports that in fact up to six Al Qaeda militants were killed. According to Mareb Press, the strike hit and destroyed a vehicle that Al Qaeda seized

Summary

0 – 4

Neighbourhood/area

4–6

وادي عبيدة, Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen

LOCATION

On January 19th 2013, before 11pm, the second of three alleged US drone strikes hit the Al Shabwan Wadi Abidah region of the Marib governorate, killing as many as three militants. Marib Press, Yemen Observer, and Enduring American World View corroborated that one of the reported militants killed was Ismaeel Bin Saeed Bin Jameel and

Summary

Neighbourhood/area

2–3

وادي عبيدة, Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen

LOCATION

On January 19th 2013, between 7 and 10:30 pm, the first of three alleged US drone strikes in the Wadi Abidah region in al-Hatik in Marib struck an orange farm in the populated Al-Masil area in Al Dsaleel, Ra’ed Fadi Abdullah. There were no reported casualties, civilian or militant but according to eyewitnesses, the strike

Summary

Civilian infrastructure

Agriculture

Neighbourhood/area

LOCATION

Bulo Marer, Somalia

French commandos failed to a rescue a French spy held hostage by al Shabaab since 2009. Paris claimed the militants executed the captured secret service agent, known by his alias Denis Allex, during an assault by 50 Special Forces troops. However al Shabaab’s media wing said the hostage survived. Seventeen alleged militants were reportedly killed

Summary

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons

(2 children2 women3 men)

Causes of injury / death

7 named, 2 families identified

رداع, Rada'a, Al Bayda, Yemen

LOCATION

On January 3rd 2013, at least three Al Qaeda militants were allegedly killed by a US or Yemeni airstrike in a “mountainous area” near Rada’a. There are currently no known reports of civilian harm. Among those who died was Muqbel Abbad Al Zobah, nicknamed Abu Shebab, the news source Akhbar Alyom reported. This was corroborated

Summary

سائلة الجرّاح, Saila valley/Sa'ilat al Jarrah, Al Bayda, Yemen

LOCATION

Alleged US missiles hit a 2006 saloon Land Cruiser traveling on the outskirts of al-Manaseh village on December 29, 2012, near Radda, in the fourth strike in a week. At least three alleged al Qaeda members died and two others were injured. There are currently no known reports of civilian harm. The three victims reportedly

Summary

3–4

شحير, Near the hospital in Shoheer, Hadramaut, Yemen

LOCATION

On the evening of December 28, 2012, an alleged US drone strike fired missiles at a moving motorcycle killed between two to four alleged AQAP militants near the town of Shaher, near the site of a strike four days earlier. An investigation by an NGO revealed that a 10 year old child was also wounded.

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Named victims

1 named

2–4

المناسح, Manaseh, Al Bayda, Yemen

LOCATION

Two suspected Al Qaeda militants were killed and three were injured in an alleged US drone strike which hit a vehicle in Manaseh in al-Bayda province on December 24th, 2012 at 5pm. No civilian harm has been reported. According to Reuters, AFP, and AP, two Al Qaeda militants were killed when a drone strike hit

Summary

ملعب نادي وحدة شحير, Wahid Shoheer Club stadium, Hadramaut, Yemen

LOCATION

Three missiles hit motorbikes killing three to five Al Qaeda militants and injuring between one and 15 people including 14 civilians. The alleged US drone strike occurred in Shehr in Hadramout province in the evening on December 24th, 2012. The number of people injured in the strike varies greatly from one to two militants reported

Summary

(0–1 men)

1–14

3–5

1–2

السرين, Sirin, Sana'a, Yemen

LOCATION

An alleged US drone strike killed two to four people, including one civilian (child) and two to three Al Qaeda militants from the AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) branch, and injured one to three other militants in Beit Al Ahmar in the town of Sanhan in the Sana’a Governorate on the November 7th, 2012

Summary

(1 child)

2–3

1–3

حضرموت, Hadramawt, Hadramaut, Yemen

LOCATION

Two local sources reported that “Abu al-Baraa al-Sharouri, amir of the Sharia courses” was killed by a US drone strike in Hadramawt on October 29, 2012. @FlashpointIntel added that another “jihadist” called “brother Abu Hussein” was also killed in the strike. No other information was available about this incident.

Summary

Province/governorate

1–2

وادي آل أبو جبارة, Wadi Al Abu Jabarah, Sa'dah, Yemen

LOCATION

On the 28th October 2012 at 10am in the Wadi al Abu Jabara area in Saada Governorate, northern Yemen, a suspected US drone conducted three airstrikes against two houses in the area, injuring two civilians, a woman and her son, and killing between three and four alleged Al Qaeda militants and injuring one, according to

Summary

3–4

الحرقان عبيدة, Wadi Obeida, Ma'rib, Yemen

LOCATION

According to local and international media, on October 21st 2012 at around 8pm, a suspected US airstrike struck a Prado car, in the Hami and Al Damashqa area in the Obeida valley around 17km east of the city of Ma’arib, carrying three to four suspected Al Qaeda militants, killing everyone in the car. There are

Summary

3–4

الرميلة, Rumaila, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

In a dawn attack, a series of missiles from an alleged unmanned airstrike were fired at targets on the outskirts of Jaar, apparently striking Al Qaeda militants on the verge of launching a suicide attack on military targets. The alleged US drone or Yemeni airstrike attack hit a farmhouse in the Wadi Anna bridge area,

Summary

7–9

3–6

السدية, Sadiya, Shabwa, Yemen

LOCATION

On the 4th of October 2012, a suspected US drone strike hit and killed up to six Ansar al-Sharia militants and injured up to four others in the desert region of al-Saeed in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa. According to security sources reporting to Akhbar al-Youm, the strike took place at roughly eleven o’clock

Summary

3–6

2–4

المحفد, Mahfad, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

The morning of September the 20th 2012, two air strikes or drone strikes, which are believed to be either American or Yemeni, killed up to four militants and injured three others in the eastern outskirts of the town of Mahfad in the southern province of Abyan. Even though it cannot be ruled out, there are

Summary

2–4

وادي العين, Wadi Al Ain, Hadramaut, Yemen

LOCATION

Between six and seven militants including AQAP’s second-in-command Said al Shehri (aka al Shihri) were reportedly killed in an alleged US or Yemeni strike on a car and house in Hadramout, eastern Yemen on September 12, 2012, according to US and Yemeni officials. However, it is unclear at what point Shehri was killed as his

Summary

6–7

المناسح, Manaseh, Al Bayda, Yemen

LOCATION

Local sources reported that an alleged US drone strike had killed four militants, including the brother of an Al Qaeda leader the US had attempted to kill days earlier, in Qaifa near Radaa on September 8th 2012, according to a security official. There were no known associated reports of civilian harm. The security source cited

Summary

عزان, Azzan, Shabwa, Yemen

LOCATION

On September 7th 2012, a child was injured following the explosion of a live projectile from a previous airstrike allegedly by US forces in the city of Azzan, Shabwa governorate. Eyewitnesses told Al-Masdar Online that “a shell exploded while a child was passing by one of the buildings that was bombed by drones to target

Summary

Planted explosives and unexploded ordnance (UXO)

الهشم, Hashim, Hadramaut, Yemen

LOCATION

Up to four civilians were killed when an alleged US drone reportedly fired eight missiles on a residential house with a winery on the ground floor in the village of Hashim in Hadramout. Sources were conflicted as to who was killed, with some reporting that the strike killed up to six Al Qaeda affiliates and

Summary

Civilian infrastructure

Agriculture

0 – 4

Known belligerent

Known target

0–6

صرار قيفة, Sarar Qifah, Al Bayda, Yemen

LOCATION

Confirmed US drones or jets killed between 11 and 14 civilians, including up to three women (one pregnant woman) and three children, in a botched attack on an alleged senior militant in the village of Al Saboul in Bayda province at 4pm on September 2, 2012. Up to 11 other civilians were wounded. Al Masdar

Summary

11 – 14

(3 children3 women8 men)

4–11

Known belligerent

14 named, 2 families identified

Named victims

الخشعة, قطن, Between Kasha and Qatn , Hadramaut, Yemen

LOCATION

An alleged US drone strike killed between eight and 10 suspected Al Qaeda militants on the road between the town of Qatn and the village of Khasha in the Hadramout province at 7.30am on August 31st, 2012. There were no reports of civilian harm. @basselabowardh was among the first to tweet that a drone was

Summary

8–10

خشامر, Khashamir, Hadramaut, Yemen

LOCATION

As many as nine people were reportedly killed by alleged US drone or airstrikes as they travelled through the village of Khashamir on August 29, 2023. Up to four missiles were fired at the village causing extensive damage to homes and terrifying the local residents sufficiently for some to be rushed to hospital with shock.

Summary

2 – 4

(2 men)

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Named victims

3–5