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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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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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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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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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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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Incident Date

17–18 May, 2013

Incident Code

USYEM154-B

Location

Wadi Muhur, Abyan, Yemen
In the first alleged strike in a series of strikes, over May 17th - 18th, 2023, a suspected U.S drone bombed an Al Qaeda site in Wadi Muhur, killing six members, including two of Arab nationalities. Mareb Press, quoting CNN, was the only source to report on this strike and added that "It is likely…

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Published
18 May 2013
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Incident Date

17–18 May, 2013

Incident Code

USYEM152-B

Location

Al Mahfad, Abyan, Yemen
المحفد
On 18th of May 2013, in the third strike of the night, suspected US drones reportedly destroyed a truck filled with explosives in the Al-Mahfad District in the Abyan Governorate, killing at least four people. There are also reports of an unknown number of injured. The majority of reports described the people killed as militants.…

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Published
18 May 2013
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Incident Date

21 April 2013

Incident Code

USYEM151-C

Location

Wadi Abida area, Ma'rib, Yemen
وادي عبيدة، مَأْرِب
An alleged US drone strike on a house in the Wadi Abida area of Ma'rib province reportedly killed two Al Qaeda militants, from Saudi Arabia and/or Egypt, and wounded up to three others, at dawn on April 21, 2013. One source reported that a woman and child were injured. An unnamed security official told AFP…

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Published
21 April 2013
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Incident Date

17 April 2013

Incident Code

Ob317

Location

Pobar, Tehsil Ladha, South Waziristan, Pakistan
At least four people died when at least two and up to twelve missiles destroyed a house or Taliban training camp in a pre-dawn strike on either Babar Ghar or Sararogha village, near Wana. There were fears the death toll could rise as people reportedly remained trapped in the rubble. Locals dug dead and injured out of the wreckage but the rescue work was reportedly delayed by…

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Published
17 April 2013
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Incident Date

17 April 2013

Incident Code

USYEM150-C

Location

Wessab al Ali District, Dhamar, Yemen
وصاب العالي
Up to four civilians were killed in an alleged U.S drone strike in Wessab al Ali on the 17th of April 2013. However there is some discrepancy in earlier reports which alleged all killed were militants. A suspected Al Qaeda leader Hamid al Radami (aka Hammed al Masea Meftah, Hamed Radman, Hamid Radman al Manea,…

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Published
17 April 2013
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Incident Date

14 April 2013

Incident Code

Ob316

Location

Datta Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
At least four people were killed in the first drone strike for 24 days. Tribesmen reported as many as six drones hovering over the area ‘since the afternoon, spreading panic among the residents’. One drone ‘fired two missiles at the time of sunset’, a local security official said. They reportedly hit 15 minutes apart, although intelligence officials said three…

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Published
14 April 2013
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Incident Date

22 March 2013

Incident Code

Ob315

Location

New Adda, Tehsil Datta Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Drones killed up to four people in an attack on either a house or a vehicle. Most sources said three or four people died. However in January 2014 the Bureau published an internal assessment of drone strikes compiled by the local political authority. It listed three people killed in a strike on a ‘double cab pickup…

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Published
22 March 2013
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Incident Date

10 March 2013

Incident Code

Ob314

Location

Datta Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to three people died in a drone strike, although reports differed on the circumstances. Several reports said men riding on a horse were attacked, killing them and the horse instantly. However three unnamed officials told the Associated Press that a single horse-borne alleged ‘foreign militant’ was killed. Other reports said two alleged militants were killed when drones destroyed a house. Rescue work…

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Published
10 March 2013
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Incident Date

1–31 March, 2013

Incident Code

USSOM025-C

Location

Kol, near Bula Xawa, Gedo, Somalia
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…

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Published
1 March 2013
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Incident Date

8 February 2013

Incident Code

Ob313

Location

Babar Ghar, South Waziristan, Pakistan
CIA drones reportedly killed at least six in a strike on the North-South Waziristan border. Two senior al Qaeda commanders, Abu Majid al Iraqi and Sheikh Abu Waqas, were reportedly killed. Abu Waqas (35) was said to be a Yemeni bomb making expert who was involved in "high profile attacks on US and Isaf forces".…

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Published
8 February 2013
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Incident Date

6 February 2013

Incident Code

Ob312

Location

Spinwam, North Waziristan, Pakistan
After a 27-day pause, CIA drones reportedly destroyed a house and damaged others nearby, killing at least three people. Between two and six missiles reportedly hit the building, which caught fire, at noon. The strike injured an unknown number of people in one of several nearby houses that were damaged by the blast. One report said the strike killed five, including ‘three suspected…

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Published
6 February 2013
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Incident Date

31 January 2013

Incident Code

USYEM140-B

Location

Shabwa, Shabwa, Yemen
One member of Al Qaeda was killed in a suspected US drone strike at some point before February 2013 in Shabwa province. There are currently no known reports of civilian harm. In February AFP reported Adel al Abab (aka Adil al Abab, Abu al Zubair) was killed in the second of a pair of strikes…

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Published
31 January 2013
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Incident Date

23 January 2013

Incident Code

USYEM148-C

Location

Khawlan, Sanaa, Yemen
خولان
On January 23, 2013, at least two civilians were killed by alleged U.S. drone attacks in central Sanaa province. Between two and five militants were also killed in the strike. In the immediate aftermath Yemeni media named five of the dead as: Salem Mohsen Jamel, Ali Mohammed Jamel, Mohsem Mohsen Jamel and Al Nashiri. Rabee…

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Published
23 January 2013
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Incident Date

23 January 2013

Incident Code

USYEM149-C

Location

Wald Rabi' District, Bayda Governorate, Yemen
A second possible drone strike on January 23, 2013 killed between two and four militants, with some sources noting that two children were killed and seven other civilians, including two children and a woman, were injured. The Los Angeles Times reported the strike hit two motorcycles – its intended target – and killing the alleged…

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23 January 2013
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