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22 January 2013

Incident Code

USYEM147-B

Location

Al Boka, Al Jawf, Yemen
An alleged U.S. drone or Saudi strike killed at least three suspected Al Qaeda militants and injured "several others" in the al Jawf province near the Saudi Arabian border on January 22, 2013. One source reported that a member of the National Security Agency who was instructing the drones to their targets was accidentally killed.…

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22 January 2013
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21 January 2013

Incident Code

USYEM146-B

Location

Nakhla, Ma'rib, Yemen
Between two and nine Al Qaeda members were killed and three to five more were wounded in an alleged US drone strike on Nakhla on January 21, 2023. There were varying identifications of the dead. Ahmed al Ziadi, an alleged Al Qaeda commander in Marib province, died of his wounds "hours later". Ali al Ghulaisi,…

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21 January 2013
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20 January 2013

Incident Code

USYEM145-B

Location

Al Kanais, Ma'rib, Yemen
On January 20th 2013, three suspected Al Qaeda militants were killed when an alleged US drone strike hit a car in Al Kanais, a deserted area in Ma’rib near the border with the al-Jawf province. The strike was carried out in the afternoon. There are currently no known reports of civilian harm. Ali al Ghulaisi,…

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20 January 2013
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19 January 2013

Incident Code

USYEM142-N

Location

Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen
وادي عبيدة
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…

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19 January 2013
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19 January 2013

Incident Code

USYEM143-B

Location

Wadi Abida, Ma'rib, Yemen
وادي عبيدة
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…

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19 January 2013
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Incident Date

19 January 2013

Incident Code

USYEM144-C

Location

Wadi Obeida, Ma'rib, Yemen
وادي عبيدة
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…

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19 January 2013
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12 January 2013

Incident Code

SOM016a-1

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…

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12 January 2013
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Incident Date

10 January 2013

Incident Code

Ob311

Location

Hassokhel, near Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan
At least four were killed in Hesso Khel, the second strike on the village in three days. A house was destroyed in the strike. According to AFP two missiles destroyed the house and two further missiles hit a nearby motorcycle. Four people died in the house and two on the motorbike, the agency added. None of the…

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10 January 2013
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8 January 2013

Incident Code

Ob309

Location

Haiderkhel, near Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan
In twin strikes CIA drones killed at least six people, including up to two reported civilians. There were conflicting accounts of the events that night. Some sources reported a single strike that killed up to nine people. But multiple sources reported up to 17 missiles were fired on two nearby but separate targets at least 15…

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8 January 2013
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8 January 2013

Incident Code

Ob310

Location

Malangan Hassokhel, Tehsil Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan
The Agency’s drones killed at least two people in the second strike in nearby Hesso Khel village. Up to 11 missiles were fired on a ‘two room house‘ belonging to Noor Mohammed – his fate was not reported. An October 2013 Amnesty International field investigation found 4-9 people died in the attack, all ‘Taliban and/or al Qaeda’. Villagers said…

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8 January 2013
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6 January 2013

Incident Code

Ob308

Location

Smal Narai area, Tehsil Ladha, South Waziristan, Pakistan
The CIA continued its New Year offensive with the third strike in five days – possibly the bloodiest attack in 88 days. Between 8 and 18 people were reported killed when up to five US drones fired multiple missiles in a pre-dawn strike. The unmanned aircraft battered the Babar Ghar area of South Waziristan according…

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6 January 2013
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Incident Date

4 January 2013

Incident Code

USYEM141-B

Location

Rada'a, Al Bayda, Yemen
رداع
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…

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3 January 2013
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3 January 2013

Incident Code

Ob307

Location

Ghundi Killi, Tappi area, Tehsil Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
A double missile strike on a vehicle near Mir Ali, North Waziristan, reportedly killed four people, reportedly including Faisal Khan, a local leader of the Pakistan Taliban (TTP). Also killed with him, according to the Washington Post, were two ‘Uzbek militants’; Express Tribune put the toll at six and named two more of the dead as Israr Mehsud and Latif.…

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3 January 2013
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Incident Date

2 January 2013

Incident Code

Ob306

Location

Lajhmarai area, Tehsil Birmal, South Waziristan, Pakistan
In one of their most significant recent strikes, CIA drones killed Maulvi Nazir, the powerful leader of a so-called ‘good Taliban’ faction, in a late evening (1035pm) attack near Wana in South Waziristan. The Express Tribune said the attack was ‘perhaps the most prized feather in [the] cap’ of the drone programme. Also reported killed…

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2 January 2013
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Incident Date

29 December 2012

Incident Code

USYEM139-B

Location

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

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29 December 2012
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Incident Date

29 December 2012

Incident Code

Ob305

Location

Gurbaz, Shawal, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to five people were reported killed in a drone strike in the Shawal valley area on the borders of North and South Waziristan. Dawn reported intelligence officials as saying that a house in Gurbaz was bombed. AFP reported that while one official claimed those killed were in ‘a house believed to be a militant…

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29 December 2012
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Incident Date

28 December 2012

Incident Code

USYEM138-C

Location

Near the hospital in Shoheer, Hadramaut, Yemen
شحير
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.…

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28 December 2012
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Incident Date

24 December 2012

Incident Code

USYEM136-B

Location

Manaseh, Al Bayda, Yemen
المناسح
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…

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24 December 2012
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Incident Date

24 December 2012

Incident Code

USYEM137-C

Location

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

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24 December 2012
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Incident Date

21 December 2012

Incident Code

Ob304

Location

Hassokhel, near Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan
At least three alleged militants were reported killed in an attack on a house in the Mir Ali area, local media reported. A CIA drone reportedly fired two missiles, destroying the house. One source noted that unidentified ‘foreigners’ may have been among the dead, and local people were reported to have taken part in rescue…

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21 December 2012
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Incident Date

9 December 2012

Incident Code

Ob303

Location

Tabbi Tor Khel, Tehisl Ghulam Khan, North Waziristan, Pakistan
An alleged US led strike in North Waziristan killed up to four people, including Mohammad Ahmed Almansoor, described by Reuters and others as a senior al Qaeda commander. The CIA strike hit the village of Tabbi, north of Miran Shah on the Gulan Khan road. US intelligence sources told the Long War Journal he was…

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9 December 2012
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Incident Date

6 December 2012

Incident Code

Ob302

Location

Noorak Mubarak Shahi area, Tehsil Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Senior al Qaeda figure Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdul Rehman al-Hussainan, aka Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti, was killed when CIA drones attacked a house. He was reportedly ‘a top member of al Qaeda’s religious committee‘. While some reports referred to a pre-dawn raid, al Qaeda later claimed that al Hussainan died ‘while having dinner after a day of fasting.’ Reports…

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6 December 2012
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Incident Date

1 December 2012

Incident Code

Ob301

Location

Shin Warsak, South Waziristan, Pakistan
The second strike in three days on the Shin Warsak area of South Waziristan killed a Yemeni militant, local media reported. Abdul Rehman al-Zaman Yemeni was a ‘mid-level al Qaeda commander, equivalent to a colonel’, according to an anonymous intelligence official in the Long War Journal. The Express Tribune described Yemeni as a ‘senior al Qaeda…

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1 December 2012
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Incident Date

29 November 2012

Incident Code

Ob300

Location

Shin Warsak, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to four people were killed in the first drone strike in Pakistan for 36 days, local media reported. Reports said one or more CIA drones fired on a vehicle or house in the Shin Warsak area near Wana, capital of South Waziristan. Sheikh Abdul Bari, described as a Yemen-born al Qaeda-linked militant, was among the dead.…

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29 November 2012
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Incident Date

7 November 2012

Incident Code

USYEM135-C

Location

Sirin, Sana'a, Yemen
السرين
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…

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7 November 2012
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Incident Date

29 October 2012

Incident Code

USYEM134-B

Location

Hadramawt, Hadramaut, Yemen
حضرموت
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.

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29 October 2012
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28 October 2012

Incident Code

USYEM133-C

Location

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

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28 October 2012
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Incident Date

24 October 2012

Incident Code

Ob299

Location

Village Ghundi Killi Daur Tappi area of Tehsil Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Bibi Mamana, a 65 or 67-year-old midwife, was killed and at least six of her grandchildren were left burned and with shrapnel injuries in an apparent ‘double-tap’ strike by CIA drones. Villagers claimed the drones targeted the woman and children as they walked from a field to the house. Mamana, the wife of retired 72-year-old…

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24 October 2012
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Incident Date

21 October 2012

Incident Code

USYEM132-B

Location

Wadi Obeida, Ma'rib, Yemen
الحرقان عبيدة
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…

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Published
21 October 2012
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Incident Date

18 October 2012

Incident Code

USYEM131-B

Location

Rumaila, Abyan, Yemen
الرميلة
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,…

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18 October 2012
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