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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob268
Location
Sarai Bazaar, Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
A house in the market area of Miranshah town was destroyed in a 3am attack, killing up to four alleged militants. According to AFP, the CIA strike also sparked a fire in the moneychangers’ market. The blast reportedly destroyed five shops including a bakery, three grocery shops and a telephone kiosk. Eyewitness Yousuf Khan described…
Summary
Published
30 March 2012
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
30 March 2012
Incident Code
USYEM055-C
Location
Azzan, Shabwa, Yemen
عزان
The second targeted attack in a two-part alleged US airstrike hit an Al Qaeda hideout in Azzan in the Shabwa Province on the 30th of March, 2012, injuring four civilians. The Long War Journal reported that a Predator or Reaper fired missiles at a building which was thought to be occupied by AQAP. The Long…
Summary
Published
30 March 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Infrastructure
Residential
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Apartment Building
)
Civilians reported injured
4
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
21–22 March, 2012
Incident Code
USYEM053-B
Location
Zinjibar, Abyan, Yemen
زنجبار
According to local Yemen officials, three areas in Zinjibar were struck by alleged US drone strikes or Yemeni military strikes, killing 29 to 30 Al Qaeda fighters and wounding dozens others on March 22, 2012. The website Arab Monitor stated that "dozens" were wounded in the attacks, which targeted alleged Al Qaeda bases. No other…
Summary
Published
22 March 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
),
Naval bombardment
Military actors reported killed
29–30
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
18 March 2012
Incident Code
USYEM051-B
Location
Al Musaimeer, near Zinjibar, Abyan, Yemen
مسيمر
Alleged Yemeni or US strikes on Al Qaeda positions in north-eastern Zinjibar, Abyan province, allegedly killed 14 to 18 belligerents and injured dozens of others on 18 March 2012, sources said. There are currently no reports of civilian harm, though one source, Xinhua, stated that an anonymous Yemen official stated that "it was not clear…
Summary
Published
18 March 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
),
Naval bombardment
Infrastructure
Agriculture
Military actors reported killed
14–18
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
18 March 2012
Incident Code
USYEM052-C
Location
Ja'ar, Abyan, Yemen
جعار
One civilian was reported injured and eight militants were killed in alleged Yemeni or US airstrikes carried out on the city of Jaar on March 18th 2012, in the governorate of Abyan. According to an Associated Press (AP) report published in the Washington Times, the civilian was injured when a post office being used as…
Summary
Published
18 March 2012
Strike Type
Naval bombardment
,
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Communications
Civilians reported injured
1
Military actors reported killed
8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob266
Location
Wagdalai, Tehsil Birmal, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Two senior commanders of a Taliban faction were among up to eight people killed in a CIA strike on South Waziristan. The men – part of a group commanded by Maulvi Nazir – died in an attack on their vehicle. An eyewitness identified one of the commanders as Amir Hamza Toji Khel – described as…
Summary
Published
13 March 2012
Civilians reported injured
2–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob267
Location
Shawa, North/South Waziristan, Pakistan
A strike was reported on another vehicle ‘some hours later‘ in the borderlands of North and South Waziristan, killing up to seven people. According to the Frontier Post ‘locals of the area said that a double cabin pick up was hit by missiles from drone planes which killed seven people burning down the pick-up to…
Summary
Published
13 March 2012
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
13 March 2012
Incident Code
USYEM050-B
Location
Bayda (town), Al Bayda, Yemen
ٱلْبَيْضَاء
An alleged U.S. drone strike killed four to five alleged AQAP militants and injured five others traveling in a car along an outpost in the Al-Ghunaim area of Shuria district in Al-Bayda Province on 13 March 2012. There are currently no known reports of civilian harm. Yemeni security officials stated that the strike was conducted…
Summary
Published
13 March 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
4–5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
11 March 2012
Incident Code
USYEM049-B
Location
Mount (Jabal) Khanfar, Ja'ar, Abyan, Yemen
جبل خنفر
An air attack by the US and/or Yemen on a militant-occupied factory where arms were allegedly stored killed three to seven belligerents near Ja’ar the evening of March 11, 2012. Ansar al Sharia, along with other sources, said that US drones carried out the early evening strike, with up to five drones reportedly taking part.…
Summary
Published
11 March 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
3–7
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
10 March 2012
Incident Code
USYEM048-B
Location
Ja'ar, Abyan, Yemen
جعار
Alleged US airstrikes or Yemeni airstrikes in Jaar and Zinjibar on May 10, 2012 reportedly killed up to 24 alleged militants and nine others were injured, with some sources reporting possible civilian casualties. Although initially reported as the work of the Yemen Air Force, a senior Yemen government official told CNN that the attacks were…
Summary
Published
10 March 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
20–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
9 March 2012
Incident Code
USYEM047-C
Location
Al Makhnaq, Al Zahir district, Al Bayda, Yemen
المخنق
Ten to 43 suspected militants were reported killed in a drone strike at 9:15pm on al Bayda, Yemen, March 9th, 2012. Yet in interviews, human rights activists and victims’ relatives said "many" of the dead were civilians, not fighters, with at least two named civilian victims and a report of a child killed. As many…
Summary
Published
9 March 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
2–10
Civilians reported injured
0–55
Military actors reported killed
10–43
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob264
Location
Shaktoi Mandao, South Waziristan, Pakistan
A rare CIA drone strike just inside South Waziristan killed up to 15 alleged militants. The attack, the first in more than three weeks, struck a vehicle (see also below) in the Mandao borderlands area. A senior Pakistani security official told AFP:A drone fired two missiles on a vehicle. At least eight militants were killed. It is…
Summary
Published
9 March 2012
Civilians reported injured
0–3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob265
Location
Nishpa, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Three sources reported a second strike. The first reportedly hit a vehicle, killing up to 15 militants. The second strike was said to have hit a house 12 kilometres away, killing ‘six Uzbeks’.
Summary
Published
9 March 2012
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob263a
Location
Machi Khel, Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan
The News reported that Pakistani troops searching for the wreckage of a crashed US drone narrowly missed injury when a missile was fired from a circling drone. A senior local official told the paper:We were looking for the wreckage of the drone in Machikhel village, Mir Ali, and were almost close to the debris of the…
Summary
Published
25 February 2012
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
24 February 2012
Incident Code
USSOM022-C
Location
K60, Lower Shabelle, Somalia
One civilian man was possibly killed as a US drone struck and killed up to seven members of al-Shabaab at Kilometre 60 or K60, in Lower Shabelle, 60km south west of Mogadishu on the road to Marka/ Mercer, international media reported. The action came hours after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had told a…
Summary
Published
24 February 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
1
Military actors reported killed
4–7
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob262
Location
Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
An early morning strike on a house in Spalga, near Miranshah, killed up to six alleged militants. Four were seriously injured. At least three Pakistani security officials in the area confirmed the attack, which a number of reports claimed was against the Haqqani Network.In January 2014 the Bureau published an internal assessment of drone strikes…
Summary
Published
16 February 2012
Civilians reported injured
4–7
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob263
Location
Jalar Zakar Khel, Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan
In the second drone strike of the day up to 15 alleged militants died in an attack on a pick-up truck in Mir Ali. A number of reports referred to the dead as ‘Uzbek Islamists’. In January 2014, German media reported a German national died in the strike with alleged Uzbek militants. Patrick K, a…
Summary
Published
16 February 2012
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob261
Location
Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Badar Mansoor, the commander of a Pakistan Taliban faction with strong links to al Qaeda, was among up to eight people killed in a 4am attack by the CIA in Miranshah, North Waziristan, the second US strike in 24 hours. AFP named the other dead as Qari Fayaz, Maulvi Faisal Khurasani, Qari Mushtaq and Yasir Khurasani.…
Summary
Published
9 February 2012
Civilians reported killed
0–3
Civilians reported injured
3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob260
Location
Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Ten alleged militants were killed in an early morning attack on a house near Miranshah, North Waziristan. One anonymous Pakistani official reported: ‘The locals have pulled out nine bodies and around a dozen injured from the rubble of demolished house’. ‘There was wide speculation about the victims. One source claimed that those killed were part of…
Summary
Published
8 February 2012
Civilians reported injured
2–12
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob259ci
Location
Darand Shekhan, Orakzai Agency, Pakistan
There were clashing reports as to the source of an early morning attack on four Pakistan Taliban (TTP) compounds in Orukzai Agency. Dawn reported that the strike was carried out by the Pakistan Air Force – and that a TTP commander may have been killed. Earlier there had been some speculation as to whether US drones…
Summary
Published
1 February 2012
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
30–31 January, 2012
Incident Code
USYEM046-B
Location
Awadh Abd Al Nabi school in the village Al Khadira, Abyan, Yemen
الخديرة
Between three and 15 Al Qaeda members were killed and up to 15 others were injured in confirmed US airstrikes conducted by a mix of drones and manned aircrafts under the US Department of Defence’s control on Awadh Abd Al Nabi school in the village Al Khadira on January 31, 2012. There were no known…
Summary
Published
31 January 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Infrastructure
Education
Military actors reported killed
3–15
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob258
Location
Deegan, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to five people, four of them alleged Turkmeni militants possibly allied to al Qaeda, according to Reuters, were reported killed in a morning strike on a vehicle in North Waziristan. The vehicle was en route from Degan to Datta Khel and according to the BBC ‘was engulfed by fire after the missile strike. A…
Summary
Published
23 January 2012
Civilians reported injured
1–3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
Incident Code
Ob259
Location
Char Khel, Datta Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Two missiles may also have struck a house in Mohammad Khel. CNN reported local intelligence officials as saying that nobody was killed in the attack, although The News reported local tribesmen as saying that two people died. This attack may be confused with Ob258.
Summary
Published
23 January 2012
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
21 January 2012
Incident Code
USSOM020
Location
Elasha Biyaha, Lower Shabelle, Somalia
A British al Shabaab fighter, Bilal al-Berjawi, was killed by a US drone strike in or near the town of Elasha Biyaha, 15km south of Mogadishu, local and international media reported. There were no reports of civilian harm. Three missiles fired from a drone operated by JSOC killed British-Lebanese militant Bilal al-Berjawi, also known as…
Summary
Published
21 January 2012
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
21 January 2012
Incident Code
USSOM021-C
Location
Kismayo, Lower Juba, Somalia
In this single-source claim, six people were allegedly killed as an airstrike carried out by US or Kenyan forces, struck near the al Shabaab stronghold of Kismayo, Sheikh Mohamud Abdi, a senior al-Shabaab commander, claimed to Reuters. It is not known whether the strike was by US or Kenyan forces. Kenya sent troops into Somalia…
Summary
Published
21 January 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–6
Military actors reported killed
6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
12 January 2012
Incident Code
Ob257
Location
Datta Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to nine militants, mostly Turkmeni, were killed in a US strike on two vehicles in Dogga, 18 miles west of Miranshah. Reuters reported a Pakistani intelligence source as saying: ”The missiles hit two cars that were heading towards the border. Several foreigners were in the cars, but we have no information on their nationalities…
Summary
Published
12 January 2012
Civilians reported injured
2–3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
10 January 2012
Incident Code
Ob256
Location
Miram Shah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Many civilians were reported injured in an alleged US drone strike on Miranshah in the border province of Waziristan in Pakistan on January 10th 2012. According to media sources, the operation targeted Al-Qaeda, where between one and six of its militants were reported killed in the attack. Human rights activists in Pakistan and abroad have…
Summary
Published
10 January 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
2–20
Military actors reported killed
1–6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
22 December 2011
Incident Code
USYEM045-B
Location
Zinjibar, Abyan, Yemen
زنجبار
Up to five people, allegedly members of Al Qaeda, were killed in an alleged US drone strike or naval shelling on an extremist site in Bagdar neighborhood in the city of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province in southern Yemen on the evening of December 22nd, 2011 according to local sources and news outlets. One…
Summary
Published
22 December 2011
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
),
Naval bombardment
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
16 December 2011
Incident Code
Lib2011-218
Location
Tripoli, Tarabulus, Libya
طرابلس
One civilian was killed and three others were injured in Tripoli on December 16, 2011 when their car was ambushed and attacked by nine people armed with Kalashnikov rifles. According to the UN Report Source Page 82, a survivor of the attack said that he was in a car with four friends when their car…
Summary
Published
16 December 2020
Strike Type
Ground operation
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Small arms and light weapons
Military Actor
Libyan rebel forces
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Incident Date
14 December 2011
Incident Code
Lib2011-217
Location
Tripoli, Tarabulus, Libya
طرابلس
One man was killed in Tripoli by rebel forces after the rebels tried to confiscate his car and he refused. According to UN Report Source Page 82, the rebels had approached a member of the Tripoli brigade to try to confiscate their car, claiming it was government property, but left after negotiations without the car.…
Summary
Published
14 December 2011
Strike Type
Ground operation
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Small arms and light weapons
Military Actor
Libyan rebel forces
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