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Incident Date
21 June 2014
Incident Code
LC004
Location
Ras al Helal Port, Benghazi, Libya
ميناء منطقة رأس الهلال
Local sources reported that the LNA targeted one or two boats off the coast of Ras al Helal. The boat was said to have been completely destroyed and five civilians injured. According to Libya News, five civilians were wounded, ranging from medium to light injuries, following an aerial bombardment of a marine boat in Ras…
Summary
Published
21 June 2014
Civilians reported injured
5
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
18 June 2014
Incident Code
Ob335
Location
Darga Mandi, Dande Darpakhel or Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to six civilians were killed and four others injured in airstrikes in North Waziristan. The majority of sources reported that those killed were militants but some sources did not identify them as militants. Both NBC News and Voice of America reported that the identity of those killed was not available, raising doubts as to…
Summary
Published
18 June 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–6
Civilians reported injured
0–4
Military actors reported killed
0–8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
13 June 2014
Incident Code
USYEM189
Location
Mafraq al Saeed, Shabwa, Yemen
At least five alleged AQAP members were killed when their vehicle or convoy of vehicles was hit by several missiles fired by a US drone either late on June 13 (Reuters) or on June 14 (Associated Press, Xinhua). The men included local resident and reportedly ‘leading AQAP figure’ Musaed al Habshi al Barasi al Awlaqi…
Summary
Published
13 June 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
5–6
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
12 June 2014
Incident Code
Ob334
Location
Darga Mandi, Dande Darpakhel or Ghulam Khan, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Between six and 10 suspected militants were killed and four others were injured in drone strikes, the location of which is under contention. There were no reports of civilian casualties. Hours after the five-month hiatus in drone strikes ended, drones reportedly fired multiple missiles at alleged militants, reportedly killing either six or 10 people. But reports…
Summary
Published
12 June 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
6–10
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
11 June 2014
Incident Code
Ob333
Location
Tabi Tolkhel or Darga Mandi, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to three possible civilians were killed in a drone strike against a town near Miranshah. However, the majority of sources reported that between three and six suspected militants were the ones killed in the strike. The only source that left doubt as to who the individuals killed was the Wall Street Journal, which reported…
Summary
Published
11 June 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–3
Military actors reported killed
0–6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
4 June 2014
Incident Code
USYEM188
Location
Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen
At least three alleged AQAP members were killed in a reported US drone strike on a vehicle in Wadi Abeeda – also the site of the previously reported strike. A local official told Xinhua, cited by news agency IANS, that the attack was carried out by a drone, and tribal sources confirmed this to Reuters…
Summary
Published
4 June 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Military actors reported killed
3–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
2 June 2014
Incident Code
LC003a
Location
Benghazi Cement Factory, Benghazi, Libya
معمل أسمنت بنغازي
Between one and five civilians were reported killed in an alleged LNA airstrike on the cement factory in Benghazi. Almasry Alyoum wrote: An Egyptian worker named, 35-years-old, from the village of Habalsa, a member of the Al Qusiya centre in Assiut, was killed on Monday afternoon in a bombing of a cement factory in Benghazi,…
Summary
Published
2 June 2014
Civilians reported killed
1–5
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
1–30 June, 2014
Incident Code
USSOM031-C
Location
Farigow, 3 km west of Jilib, Middle Juba, Somalia
Between one and five civilians, including women and children, were killed as the Farigow leper colony near Jilib, Middle Jubba was struck by unknown warplanes, international media reported. A woman living near the settlement told the Kenyan group Journalists for Justice that the colony was struck by jets by "mid 2014", killing one person and…
Summary
Published
20 May 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1–5
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
1 June 2014
Incident Code
LC003
Location
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Benghazi, Libya
قسم الهندسة الميكانيكية
One or three civilians were wounded in three alleged LNA airstrikes in Benghazi, local media reported. Sources reported that strikes hit the following locations: Palace of the Crown in the Garyounis area. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – previously called the Naji Infunas Comprehensive Institute. The February 17 camp in Qawarsheh GNA 204 battalion in Al…
Summary
Published
1 June 2014
Civilians reported injured
1–3
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
12 May 2014
Incident Code
USYEM187
Location
Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen
At least four people were killed in a US drone strike in Mareb. They were travelling in a vehicle travelling to a farm in the area. Witnesses named two of the victims as Naif Faraj and Mousleh al Arahabi the dead were allegedly al Qaeda but it was not immediately clear what Faraj or Arahabi’s…
Summary
Published
12 May 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
4–6
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
21 April 2014
Incident Code
USYEM186
Location
Shabwa, Yemen
One sixteen-year-old civilian was killed and one civilian, a Saudi Arabian Diplomat, in a suspected US and Yemen attack on AQAP militants. Elite US and Yemeni Special Forces soldiers ambushed a car in Shabwa, an eastern Yemeni province to the north of the location of the previous two attacks. At least three people were killed…
Summary
Published
21 April 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
),
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1–2
Military actors reported killed
3–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
20 April 2014
Incident Code
USYEM185
Location
Mahfed, Abyan, Yemen
One civilian boy was killed and three others were injured, in a major event where US drones and the Yemeni military allegedly killed up to 55 AQAP militants. A series of air strikes hit alleged AQAP training camps in Yemen’s southern Abyan province. The attacks follow a reported US drone strike the previous day in…
Summary
Published
20 April 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1–3
Military actors reported killed
30–55
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
19 April 2014
Incident Code
USYEM184
Location
As Sawma'ah District, Al Bayda, Yemen
مديرية الصومعة، ٱلْبَيْضَاء
On Saturday, 19th April 2014, at 6 am, a drone strike hit a open-air Toyota Land Cruiser carrying armed men suspected of being AQAP militants and a second strike hit a nearby Toyota Hilux carrying 12 construction workers. The cars were traveling in the Hazmieh area of As Sawma'ah near the Al-Jorroh family project. The…
Summary
Published
19 April 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Infrastructure
Vehicle
(
Car
)
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Civilians reported injured
9
Military actors reported killed
9–20
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
1 April 2014
Incident Code
USYEM183
Location
Mahfed, Abyan, Yemen
Three were killed in the first strike in Yemen in 20 days and four other were reported wounded.The attack reportedly hit an alleged al Qaeda camp, meeting or vehicle at around 1pm local time. The dead were reportedly taken to the town of Shabwa by car. US drones reportedly carried out the attack. The day…
Summary
Published
1 April 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
0–4
Military actors reported killed
3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
12 March 2014
Incident Code
USYEM182
Location
Khab Wal Saaf, Al Jawf, Yemen
An airstrike destroyed a vehicle, killing Moajab Aziz Hadban and Ali Hassan Mohammed Hadban. Local media reported Mojab Aziz was a local al Qaeda commander and Hassan Mohammed his bodyguard. This was the sixth strike in 11 days and the second in a week on Jawf province.
Summary
Published
12 March 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
2–3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
10 March 2014
Incident Code
USYEM181
Location
Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen
One civilian, aged 16, was reported killed in a suspected US drone strike on a car in Wadi Abida. Sources alleged the boy was driving a vehicle transporting AQAP militants who also died in the strike. Up to four people died overall when one or two vehicles were destroyed. The attack hit at night, suggesting…
Summary
Published
10 March 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Military actors reported killed
1–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
7 March 2014
Incident Code
USYEM180
Location
Mahfed, Abyan, Yemen
A named Yemeni soldier told the Yemen Times 15 people were killed by drones in Mahfed, Abyan province. It was unclear whether those killed were militants or civilians. Unusually, Yemen Times reported the name of their military source. Shaker al Ghadeer was reportedly a soldier with Brigade 111 base in Abyan province. He was the…
Summary
Published
7 March 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–15
Military actors reported killed
0–15
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
5 March 2014
Incident Code
USYEM179
Location
Khalek, Al Jawf, Yemen
The fourth strike in three days killed between two and four alleged AQAP members as they drove through northern Jawf province. The vehicle was destroyed in the attack. An alleged local militant leader, Ali Saleh Jraim (aka Ali Juraym), was reportedly killed with 1-3 unnamed associates. Jraim was reportedly a veteran of the Iraqi insurgency.
Summary
Published
5 March 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
2–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
3 March 2014
Incident Code
USYEM177
Location
Mahfed, Abyan, Yemen
On the 2nd or 3rd of March 2014, an alleged US drone strike, killed Walid al Jemyzeh and narrowly missed Sheikh Mamoun Abdel Hamid Hatem in the Al Mahfad district in the Abyan governorate. According to Yemeress, Hatem was a leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen. On the other hand, little is known about Walid al…
Summary
Published
3 March 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
3 March 2014
Incident Code
USYEM178
Location
Radhum, Shabwa, Yemen
The second strike of the day killed two to four people. Local media reported two unnamed militants were killed along with two ‘others’, possibly meaning civilians. The strike came hours after 20 Yemeni soldiers were killed and injured in an ambush while on patrol in Shabwa province. The soldiers had reportedly stopped an earlier mortar…
Summary
Published
3 March 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military actors reported killed
3–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
2 March 2014
Incident Code
USYEM176
Location
Shabwan, Ma'rib, Yemen
Two civilians were injured in a suspected US drone attack on a vehicle near the town of Shebwan, Marib province. Tribal sources told Aden al Ghad that the drone strike ‘targeted the vehicle of a young fighter named Jaber Saleh al Shebwani. The missile turned the vehicle into rubble and killed Shebwani as well as…
Summary
Published
2 March 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
2
Military actors reported killed
1–3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
3 February 2014
Incident Code
USYEM175
Location
Mahfed, Abyan, Yemen
Up to four people died in a suspected US drone attack in Abyan province. Most reports alleged those killed were AQAP militia, however one source, Erem, reported ‘it is feared [the killed and wounded] are civilians'. Yemen’s Ministry of Interior, citing security sources, announced an ‘airstrike’ took place in Abyan province against alleged al Qaeda…
Summary
Published
3 February 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
0–4
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military actors reported killed
0–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
26 January 2014
Incident Code
USSOM030-C
Location
Haway, Lower Shabelle, Somalia
Two civilian children were reported killed and their father severely injured when a US military drone strike attack seemingly directed at nine al Shabaab members struck Hawai, Lower Shabelle, international and local media reported. The strike was said to have targeted and failed to kill Ahmed Abdi Godane. While there initially were no reports of…
Summary
Published
26 January 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
1
Military actors reported killed
1–9
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
24 January 2014
Incident Code
USYEM174
Location
Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen
A drone strike destroyed a car carrying three or four people. The dead were reported as AQAP militants by the majority of sources, however one named local whose status was unclear was also reported killed. Local media named one of the dead as Mohammed Saeed Jardan – a local of Abeeda. An official told Xinhua:…
Summary
Published
24 January 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
0–7
Military actors reported killed
3–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
19 January 2014
Incident Code
LC002
Location
Qweira al Mal, Sabha, Libya
قويرة المال
Two children were reportedly killed in an air or artillery strike in Sabha in the south of Libya. A pro-Gaddafi page on Facebook identified the victims as the 14-year-old and a 17-years-old, and another victim at 14 years old, who lost his leg. It added that they were killed in the Hey al Hijara neighbourhood.…
Summary
Published
19 January 2014
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
1
Military Actor
General National Congress (GNC)
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Incident Date
15 January 2014
Incident Code
USYEM173
Location
Shibam, Hadhramout, Yemen
شبام
At 10 in the evening on the 14th/15th of January 2014, an alleged US drone strike reportedly killed a farmer and/or an al-Qaeda member, and injured two other al-Qaeda members, close to the city of Shibam in Hadramout Province, Yemen. The identity of those harmed by the airstrike is disputed. Al Hayat reported that Abdul…
Summary
Published
15 January 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Military actors reported killed
0–1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
8 January 2014
Incident Code
USYEM172
Location
Al Qatan, Hadramaut, Yemen
Residents, security officials and local officials said a US drone strike killed two alleged AQAP members in the southeastern province of Hadramout. Reuters reported that the drone ‘fired at least one missile’ on a car in Hadramout’s Al-Qatan district, ‘completely destroying the vehicle and killing two people’. A Yemeni government official told Xinhua news agency…
Summary
Published
8 January 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military actors reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
6 January 2014
Incident Code
USYEM171
Location
Radaa, Al Bayda, Yemen
Several outlets reported that at least two people were injured when a US drone strike hit a car on the main highway of Al Bayda province, near the city of Radaa. Eyewitnesses and ‘local sources’ were quoted as saying that ‘an American drone hit a vehicle which was transporting people believed to members of Al…
Summary
Published
6 January 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–2
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
5 January 2014
Incident Code
USYEM181-B
Location
Al Mahfad, Abyan, Yemen
Five alleged Al Qaeda militants were killed and four were injured in a reported US or Yemeni air or drone strike in the Al Mahfad district of the Abyan province on January 5th, 2014. No civilian harm was reported. The Yemeni Ministry of Interior reported that an airstrike occurred which struck AQAP hideouts in the…
Summary
Published
5 January 2014
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
31 December 2013
Incident Code
USYEM180-B
Location
Mahfed, Abyan, Yemen
On the evening of the 31st of December 2013 in the Al-Mahfad district in the Abyan province, up to six Al Qaeda militants were killed and three others injured by an alleged US drone strike. There are no reports of civilian harm. According to the Yemeni Interior Ministry, two militants were killed and three were…
Summary
Published
31 December 2013
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
2–6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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