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Incident Date

30 September 2013

Incident Code

Ob327

Location

Land Char Khel, Tehsil Datta Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
An alleged US drone hit North Waziristan for the second time in 24 hours, killing up to four people. The drone fired two missiles at a house in Datakhel area of North Waziristan, at about 4am local time according to one report. According to Asian Age, it was a CIA-operated drone. FOX News and Pakistan…

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30 September 2013
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Incident Date

29 September 2013

Incident Code

Ob326

Location

Darga Mandi, North Waziristan, Pakistan
At least three died when drones fired missiles on a house in North Waziristan. The strike hit around 11am; the house was destroyed. This was the second attack on Darga Mandi this month. The News reported that four persons were killed when a US drone fired two missiles at a house in Darga Mandi in…

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29 September 2013
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Incident Date

22 September 2013

Incident Code

Ob325

Location

ShawalPalgai area, Thesil Makin, North/South Waziristan, Pakistan
At least six people were killed and two wounded in an alleged US drone strike. Four missiles reportedly hit two houses. The identify of those killed was not immediately known, an anonymous Pakistani official said. The News reported that the drone killed six people and injured three others, whereas Xinhua claimed seven people were killed…

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22 September 2013
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Incident Date

7 September 2013

Incident Code

USYEM171-B

Location

Askariya, Lahij, Yemen
A single source reported a US drone strike destroyed a car in Askariya, in Lahj province on September 14, 2013, killing two militants and wounding two more with no civilian harm currently reported. The Yemen Post quoted an anonymous official "The four men were traveling by car through Askariya when they were struck by the…

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Published
7 September 2013
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Incident Date

5 September 2013–6 September 2019

Incident Code

Ob324

Location

Tabi, Tehsil Ghulam Khan, North Waziristan, Pakistan
At least five people were killed in the second drone strike in north Waziristan in a week. Pakistan Tribune, reported that two missiles were fired on a residential compound and stressed that the identities could not be established yet. However, intelligence sources told Dawn that two or three missiles were fired on a house that…

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Published
6 September 2013
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Incident Date

31 August 2013

Incident Code

Ob323

Location

Mossaki, Tehsil Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to four people were alleged to be killed but it is unclear whether they were miliants or civilians. Various sources, including News Pakistan and AFP, mentioned that a house was struck and between three and four "people" were killed, never specifying whether they were militants or civilians. In separate reports about the same incident,…

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Published
31 August 2013
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Incident Date

30 August 2013

Incident Code

USYEM170-B

Location

Manaseh, Al Bayda, Yemen
A suspected US drone strike destroyed a vehicle in Manasseh, in al Bayda province between midnight and 2 AM, August 30 2013, killing at least three and as many as six suspected militants including AQAP senior leader Qaid Ahmad Nasser al Dhahab and his bodyguard al Hamdani, and injuring two others, with no civilian harm…

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30 August 2013
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Incident Date

12 August 2013

Incident Code

USYEM169-B

Location

Ataq, Shabwa, Yemen
Two suspected Al Qaeda militants were killed by alleged US drone strikes in Ataq in Shabwa governorate on August 12, 2013. A local official told Reuters that a suspected US drone attacked a vehicle. ‘The car was completely obliterated and the two men inside it were killed,’ he said. There was no information about the…

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12 August 2013
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Incident Date

11 August 2013

Incident Code

LC001

Location

Al Dahir, Surt, Libya
الظهي
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…

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11 August 2013
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Incident Date

10 August 2013

Incident Code

USYEM168-B

Location

Al Askariya, Lahij, Yemen
Up to five militants were killed and up to two others were injured by a suspected American unmanned drone which struck multiple cars in the Lahj Province in Southern Yemen on August 10, 2013. Al Jazeera reported that the drone strike destroyed a vehicle believed to be carrying weapons, and this was echoed by a…

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10 August 2013
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Incident Date

8 August 2013

Incident Code

USYEM166-B

Location

Al Ayoun, Hadramaut, Yemen
On August 8th 2013, the first day of Eid, at least two suspected Al Qaeda operatives were killed and two others were injured when the car in which they were traveling was struck by a missile from an unmanned drone, confirmed by US officials as an American drone, in the Al Ayoun area of Hadhramout…

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8 August 2013
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Incident Date

8 August 2013

Incident Code

USYEM167-B

Location

Al Qotn, Hadramaut, Yemen
A series of confirmed American drone strikes were launched on August 8th, 2013 with three strikes killing a total of twelve. The third strike was launched in the Al Qatn section of Hadramout, reportedly killing at least three Al Qaeda operatives. The strike that reportedly killed three suspected Al Qaeda operatives in Hadramout included the…

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Published
8 August 2013
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Incident Date

7 August 2013

Incident Code

USYEM164-B

Location

Markha, Shabwa, Yemen
Between six to eight militants were reported killed and others were injured in an alleged US drone strike on the Markha area of Shabwa governorate in the early morning of Wednesday, August 7th 2013. A Yemeni military official claimed that the raid took place in Markha town, approximately 75 km north of Atag in the…

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Published
7 August 2013
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Incident Date

7–8 August, 2013

Incident Code

USYEM165-C

Location

Erq al-Shabwan, Wadi Obeida District, Ma'rib, Yemen
عرق ال شبوان، وادي عبيدة، مَأْرِب
Up to nine people, including as many as three civilians, among them two teenagers (16 years old and 17/18 years old), were reportedly killed in an alleged US drone strike that took place in Erq al-Shabwan, within the Wadi Obeida district of the Ma’rib governorate on August 7/8, 2013. At dawn on August 8, security…

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8 August 2013
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Incident Date

6 August 2013

Incident Code

USYEM163-B

Location

Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen
At least four alleged AQAP militants were allegedly killed by US drones in Wadi Abeeda in Marib province on August 6, 2013. The strikes were reportedly a sequence of attacks intended to disrupt an impending AQAP attack. The strike hit the day Yemen announced its security forces had disrupted an AQAP plot to attack oil…

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Published
6 August 2013
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Incident Date

1 August 2013

Incident Code

USYEM162-C

Location

Vicinity of Al-Qatn, Hadhramout, Yemen
بالقرب من قطن
Up to five people were killed and three others were injured following alleged US drone strikes on a moving vehicle in Qatan Valley, Hadhramout province at 3:15am on the 1st of August 2013. There was contention in reporting on the number and status of those killed. Some sources reported that all those killed were AQAP.…

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Published
1 August 2013
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Incident Date

30 July 2013

Incident Code

USYEM161-B

Location

Al Saeed, Shabwa, Yemen
An alleged US drone strike killed between three and four suspected Al Qaeda militants in a vehicle in the southern province of Shabwa on the 30th of July, 2013. Two Yemenis and one Saudi Arabian, all alleged militants, were killed. Tribal leaders told the Associated Press the Saudi was a ‘known member of Al Qaeda’s…

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Published
30 July 2013
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Incident Date

28 July 2013

Incident Code

Ob322

Location

Zoi Nair, Tehsil Shawal, North Waziristan, Pakistan
An alleged drone fired missiles at a house in the Shawal Valley, killing between five and eight people who local sources alleged to be militants. News reports carried different, apparently contradictory narratives of the strike. While AP reported that five people were killed, Pakistan Today claimed a total of six and the NBC and Long…

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Published
28 July 2013
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Incident Date

27 July 2013

Incident Code

USYEM160-B

Location

Wadi Dayqah, Abyan, Yemen
وادي ضيقة
An alleged US night-time strike on two or three vehicles travelling in a convoy reportedly killed between four and nine alleged militants and injured three others in Wadi Dayqad in the al Mahfad district of Abyan province on July 27, 2023. Four anonymous Yemeni officials told CNN the strike was carried out by a US…

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Published
27 July 2013
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Incident Date

13 July 2013

Incident Code

Ob321

Location

Khray Chila Mossaki area of Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan
At least two people were reported killed by an alleged U.S. drone strike. The men were reported as suspected militants but their identities are not known. The Nation and Xinhua reported that at least three people were killed, whereas all other sources reported on the killing of two men. According to Xinhua, "the strike took…

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Published
13 July 2013
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Incident Date

2–3 July, 2013

Incident Code

Ob320

Location

Danda Darpakhel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
At least 16 people were killed when CIA drones hit a house and vehicle in or around the Miranshah bazaar, although it is unclear whether these were civilians or militants. Casualty figures were low in initial reports, Daily Times for example put the death toll at two people, but rose as the day wore on.…

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Published
3 July 2013
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Incident Date

9 June 2013

Incident Code

USYEM159-C

Location

Khabb wa ash Sha’af District, Al-Jawf, Yemen
خب و الشعف، الجوف‎
Between two and seven people, including one child and multiple Al Qaeda militants, were killed and another child was injured in an alleged US drone strike that launched four to five missiles hitting a vehicle in Al Mahashma or Khabb wa ash Sha’af in Al-Jawf Province around noon on June 9th, 2013. The lowest death…

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Published
9 June 2013
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Incident Date

7 June 2013

Incident Code

Ob319

Location

Shui Khel Mandi, Tehsil Shawal, North Waziristan, Pakistan
A night-time drone strike reportedly killed at least six people, alleged militants, and wounded up to four others on the border of North and South Waziristan, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike took place ‘shortly after sunset in a forested area’, the Washington Post reported, while Xinhua cited Urdu TV channel Dunya saying the drone…

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Published
7 June 2013
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Incident Date

5 June 2013

Incident Code

USYEM158-B

Location

Hadramawt, Hadramaut, Yemen
A suspected US drone strike killed Bahraini national Abdulnasser Talfat (Abu Jaafar Al-Bahraini) at an unknown location in Hadramout province on or before June 5, 2013, with no civilian harm currently reported. On June 5, 2013, Flashpoint (@FlashpointIntel) quoted a Yemeni jihadist source “Bahraini national Abdulnasser Talfat (Abu Jaafar Al-Bahraini) has been killed by a…

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Published
5 June 2023
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Incident Date

1 June 2013

Incident Code

USYEM157-B

Location

Al Mahfad, Abyan, Yemen
المحفد
On June 1st, 2013, six to eight suspected Al Qaeda militants were killed and two to three others were injured in a series of two alleged US drone strikes or Yemeni airstrikes against two vehicles in the Al-Mahfad district in Abyan Province in the morning. No civilian harm has been reported. @yakfee reported the lowest…

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Published
1 June 2013
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Incident Date

1–30 June, 2013

Incident Code

USSOM026-C

Location

Jilib, Middle Juba, Somalia
جيليب
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…

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Published
1 June 2013
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Incident Date

29 May 2013

Incident Code

Ob318

Location

Qazi Kot, Tehsil Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
After a 42-day pause, a strike reportedly killed up to seven people and wounded up to four when two missiles hit a house at 3am, leaving bodies that were ‘badly damaged and beyond recognition’. The exact location of the strike was not clear. According to a resident, the attack hit a house in Miranshah and…

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Published
29 May 2013
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Incident Date

24 May 2013

Incident Code

USYEM156-B

Location

Shaaf district, Al Jawf, Yemen
On May 24th 2013, a suspected Saudi or US airstrike killed up to five alleged Al Qaeda militants in the Jawf province near the Saudi-Yemeni border in a late Friday evening attack. There are currently no known reports of civilian harm. A tribal source told Sanaa-based journalist Adam Baron that the strike targeted Qassim al…

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Published
24 May 2013
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Incident Date

20 May 2013

Incident Code

USYEM155-C

Location

Rada'a, Al Bayda, Yemen
رداع
On May 20th 2013, two young men were killed on a motorcycle in an alleged US drone strike in Rada’a, Bayda’ province. Sources are conflicted as to whether the two men killed were members of Al Qaeda or civilians. Nashwan News reported that the two men were killed at dawn after leaving a farm in…

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Published
20 May 2013
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Incident Date

17–18 May, 2013

Incident Code

USYEM153-C

Location

Al-Mahfad District, Abyan Governorate, Yemen
المحفد، أبين‎
On May 18th, 2013 a drone reportedly launched three airstrikes in Abyan province overnight. The second of the three strikes hit the Al-Hada area in Al-Mahfad district and six people were reported injured without specifying if those injured were militants or civilians. A CNN report, also published by Mareb Press, was the only source found…

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Published
18 May 2013
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