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Incident Date
8 April 2009
Incident Code
Ob12
Location
Ganki Khel, South Waziristan, Pakistan
An attack on a truck rigged as an anti-aircraft vehicle killed between three and four alleged militants after its occupants had earlier fired on a drone, according to local media. The US led strike also destroyed two of the nearby shops, wounding up to five civilians, two critically. Geo TV reported that "The drone was…
Summary
Published
8 April 2009
Civilians reported injured
2–5
Military actors reported killed
3–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
4 April 2009
Incident Code
Ob11
Location
Datta Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
As many as 18 civilians were killed, including up to five children and five women, when an alleged US led strike hit an ammunition store at a Taliban camp, damaging nearby houses. ‘Teacher’ or ‘militant sympathiser’ Tariq Dawar Khan was also reported possibly killed, along with ‘a number of foreign militants’. However, the Taliban said…
Summary
Published
4 April 2009
Strike Type
Airstrike
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Drone Strike
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Civilians reported killed
8–13
Civilians reported injured
2
Military actors reported killed
0–2
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
1 April 2009
Incident Code
Ob10
Location
Khadezai, Orakzai Agency, Pakistan
As many as 17 people were killed when the home compound of ‘militant TTP commander’ Maulvi Gul Nazeer was attacked in Orakzai Agency by alleged US led air and drone strikes. It was, according to local media, the first known strike in the vicinity. Gul Nazeer’s wife; daughter-in-law; two sons (Abdullah and Abdul Latif) and…
Summary
Published
1 April 2009
Strike Type
Airstrike
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Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
4–16
Military actors reported killed
8–12
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
26 March 2009
Incident Code
Ob9
Location
Sokhel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to five were killed and five wounded in an alleged US led explosion at a house of ‘pro-militant’ tribal elder Malik Gulab Khan, local media reported. The victims were described as "people" by most sources, not differentiating been militants and civilians. AFP reported that ‘residents’ were killed. The intended targets were reportedly Abu Kasha-linked militants.…
Summary
Published
26 March 2009
Strike Type
Airstrike
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Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–5
Civilians reported injured
0–5
Military actors reported killed
0–5
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
25 March 2009
Incident Code
Ob8
Location
Makeen, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to eight people were killed, six "Arabs and Uzbeks" and five were wounded in an alleged US led attack on alleged militants in two cars as they were about to cross a bridge, local media reported. The house of Haji Dost Muhammad aka Noor Mohammad was also reported destroyed. He and Maulvi Shafiq, both…
Summary
Published
25 March 2009
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
6–8
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
15 March 2009
Incident Code
Ob7
Location
Jani Khel, Bannu Frontier Region, Pakistan
Up to six people were killed including one or two ‘Arabs’ in an attack on ‘the compound of local militant commander Taj Ali Khan’ or ‘the house of Haji Awais’. The News reported that Ali Khan was killed along with a ‘foreigner'. The attack was the latest in a number outside the FATA tribal areas.…
Summary
Published
15 March 2009
Military actors reported killed
2–6
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
12 March 2009
Incident Code
Ob6
Location
Barjo, Kurram Agency, Pakistan
For the second time in a month the CIA’s drones struck Kurram Agency. Multiple strikes on a ‘TTP compound’ killed at least 14 people. Four or five missiles were fired in the strike according to a record of drone strikes collected by the local political administration. The compound was reportedly run by local commander Fazal…
Summary
Published
12 March 2009
Civilians reported killed
2–11
Military actors reported killed
12–26
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
1 March 2009
Incident Code
Ob5
Location
Sararogha, South Waziristan, Pakistan
A strike on an alleged TTP compound (complete with underground bunkers) killed at least seven and injured at least three people. The buildings were reportedly owned by tribesman Asghar Shamankhel, described as having ‘militant links’ (Dawn). Four ‘foreigners from Central Asian states’ were reported to be among the dead. However an internal FATA administration document recorded…
Summary
Published
1 March 2009
Military actors reported killed
7–12
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
16 February 2009
Incident Code
Ob4
Location
Sur Pul, Kurram Agency, Pakistan
In the first reported CIA attack on Kurram Agency, a 9am strike using at least 3 missiles killed at least 18 people. Local resident Rehman Ullah said he saw 30 bodies pulled from the rubble of a building destroyed in the strike. Anonymous informants said the Taliban ordered 30 coffins from the local bazaar. However…
Summary
Published
16 February 2009
Military actors reported killed
18–31
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
14 February 2009
Incident Code
Ob3
Location
Narsi Khel, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Between 25 and 35 people were reported killed – the Taliban said 25 Uzbek militants alone were killed – and at least 11 people were injured, local media reported. This first Obama strike against the Pakistan Taliban (TTP) and its leader Baitullah Mehsud, struck the house of Malik Rosan, a madrassa and also a vehicle. The…
Summary
Published
14 February 2009
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
1–9
Civilians reported injured
11–15
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
23 January 2009
Incident Code
Ob1
Location
Zharki, North Waziristan, Pakistan
The first fatal Obama strike killed between seven and fifteen people, reported initially as ‘foreign militants’. In a later report personally given to Obama by his then-CIA chief General Hayden, the Agency admitted missing its high value target and killing ‘five al Qaeda militants’, but made no mention of civilian deaths. A variety of sources…
Summary
Published
23 January 2009
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
9–11
Civilians reported injured
1–2
Military actors reported killed
5
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
23 January 2009
Incident Code
Ob2
Location
Ganki Khel, South Waziristan, Pakistan
As many as ten civilians were killed in an airstrike on a house in Ganki Khel, due to alleged US airstrikes, local media reported. The attack on what was allegedly the wrong house killed eight members of Malik Gulistan Khan‘s family, including Khan, three of his sons (the youngest aged three), and a nephew, according…
Summary
Published
23 January 2009
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
5–10
Civilians reported injured
2
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
22 January 2009
Incident Code
Ob0
Location
Bara, Khyber Agency, Pakistan
Two days after Barack Obama’s inauguration, US drones supported the Pakistani Army in what may have been a unique joint operation. An unnamed Pakistani intelligence officer told the Wall Street Journal that a combination of US surveillance, Pakistani human intelligence and informants were used to track alleged al Qaeda operative Zabu ul Taifi, a Saudi national, to a safe…
Summary
Published
22 January 2009
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
2 January 2009
Incident Code
B51
Location
Madin Village, South Waziristan, Pakistan
In the final strike of George W. Bush’s presidency, two missiles hit the abandoned ‘Government Girls Primary School, Sultana Tehsil Ladha’ (reportedly a TTP base), killing between three and four people and inuring three others, according to local media. SATP reported that the victims were militants. Geo TV however reported they were people, not specifying…
Summary
Published
2 January 2009
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–4
Civilians reported injured
3–5
Military actors reported killed
3–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
1 January 2009
Incident Code
B50
Location
Kari Kot, South Waziristan, Pakistan
As many as five people were killed and others were wounded in alleged US airstrikes on Kari Kot, according to local media. Two missiles hit ‘a Peju Motorcar [sic]’ killing three non-locals and injuring one person according to data collected by the FATA secretariat. However The Nation reported up to five ‘suspected militants from Turkmenistan’…
Summary
Published
1 January 2009
Civilians reported injured
2–3
Military actors reported killed
3–5
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
22 December 2008
Incident Code
B48
Location
Kari Kot, South Waziristan, Pakistan
As many as eight people were killed and five wounded in a strike on a truck rigged with an anti-aircraft gun, local media reported. Dawn reported that "two missile attacks by US drones on Monday killed five militants, said to be ‘Punjabi Taliban’ deployed in South Waziristan." BBC reported the highest death toll to be…
Summary
Published
22 December 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
3–7
Civilians reported injured
5
Military actors reported killed
5–8
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
22 December 2008
Incident Code
B49
Location
Shin Warsak, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Between two and four people were killed and four others were injured in an alleged US airstrike on an anti-aircraft truck in a second village, local media reported. Dawn reported locals as saying that "Six Taliban speaking Urdu had come to Azam Warsak bazaar in a vehicle. Four of them disembarked and went to a…
Summary
Published
22 December 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
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Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
0–4
Military actors reported killed
2–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
22 December 2008
Incident Code
B49c
Location
Doag near Wana, South Waziristan, Pakistan
An internal database of strikes and casualties compiled by the local tribal administration was published by the Bureau in mid-2013. The database listed a third strike of the day. It said it hit in ‘a solitary area in village Doag Tehsil [local administrative area] Wana causing no damage.’ No civilians were reported as dead or…
Summary
Published
22 December 2008
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
15 December 2008
Incident Code
B47
Location
Tapi Tool, North Waziristan, Pakistan
A night-time strike killed two unknown civilians and injured a further three, according to an unnamed local villager, due to alleged US forces air and drone strikes. Local resident Ajab Khan reported that the attack had set a house on fire, telling AP that he saw two bodies brought out and three wounded people taken…
Summary
Published
15 December 2008
Civilians reported killed
0–3
Civilians reported injured
3
Military actors reported killed
0–3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
11 December 2008
Incident Code
B46
Location
Azam Warsak, South Waziristan, Pakistan
At least six people were killed, including three alleged "foreigners", possibly Punjabi militants, according to local media. But according to villagers, the attack on a house – which also damaged a next-door madrassa – only killed civilians. At a funeral attended by hundreds, local religious scholar Maulana Sheikh Hakim Khan also insisted that those killed…
Summary
Published
11 December 2008
Civilians reported killed
0–7
Military actors reported killed
6–7
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
5 December 2008
Incident Code
B45c
Location
Mada Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
In July 2013 it emerged that FATA administrators had been recording drone strikes and NATO incursions in the FATA in an internal database. It recorded a third possible drone strike of the day. The entry reads: ‘Three missiles were fired from across the border in T.T. Mada Khel area, NWA [North Waziristan Agency].’ There were…
Summary
Published
5 December 2008
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
5 December 2008
Incident Code
B45
Location
Kateera, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Three or four alleged militants were killed and two civilians were injured in an alleged US military attack on a house. Two missiles were fired at a house in Kateera village in Khushal Torikhel area, however according to the Daily Times, it was not confirmed whether the militants killed were locals or foreign nationals. Local…
Summary
Published
5 December 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
2
Military actors reported killed
3–4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
29 November 2008
Incident Code
B44
Location
Chashma, North Waziristan, Pakistan
An alleged US-waged drone strike took place on a house adjacent to the bazaar in Chashma, north Waziristan, killing up to three people - all possibly civilians, even some children and/or women, local and international media reported. Two or three people were killed, reported as "locals," "tribesmen" or by as "civilians". Fore example, without specifying,…
Summary
Published
29 November 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–3
Civilians reported injured
0–3
Military actors reported killed
0–3
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
27 November 2008
Incident Code
B43
Location
Wana, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Five alleged members of the Pakistan Taliban (TTP), including two foreigners, were killed in an attack on a moving vehicle in Wana, south Waziristan, local and international media reported. However, while South Asia Terrorism Portal and Dawn attributed the attack to an improvised explosive device (a roadside bomb), Kuna and The News blamed a US…
Summary
Published
27 November 2008
Strike Type
Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)
,
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Military actors reported killed
5
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
22 November 2008
Incident Code
B42
Location
Ali Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to six militants were killed in an alleged US drone strike in Ali Khel, north Waziristan, local and international media reported, though one source also reported the injury of three children. Sources reported that the strike killed between four and six militants as well as wounding another six. As the only source, Dawn reported…
Summary
Published
22 November 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
3
Military actors reported killed
4–6
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
19 November 2008
Incident Code
B41
Location
Jani Khel, Bannu Frontier Region, Pakistan
The US reportedly carried out its first publicly known drone strike outside FATA, killing up to 13 people, possibly counting three civilians, and wounding seven, local and international media reported, as the strike generated tensions between the Pakistani government and the US. Though the US allegedly also carried out a strike outside FATA (on December…
Summary
Published
19 November 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–3
Civilians reported injured
0–7
Military actors reported killed
5–13
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
14 November 2008
Incident Code
B40
Location
Garyom, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to 13 people, including up to 11 civilians, were killed in an alleged US strike on the house of Amir Khan in Garyom on the border between North and South Waziristan, local and international media reported. While the death toll spanned from 11 to 13, a few reports claimed that between three and 11…
Summary
Published
14 November 2008
Civilians reported killed
0–11
Civilians reported injured
0–3
Military actors reported killed
2
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
7 November 2008
Incident Code
B39
Location
Kumsham, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to 11 civilians were killed in an alleged US strike in Kumsham, north Waziristan, while others reported that the strike had killed up to 16 militants. As many as 17 people were additionally reported wounded. The attack struck a ‘training facility of Hafiz Gul Bahadar’ (in a peace deal with Pakistan’s military). A local…
Summary
Published
7 November 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
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Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
6–11
Civilians reported injured
0–17
Military actors reported killed
10–16
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
31 October 2008
Incident Code
B37
Location
Asori, North Waziristan, Pakistan
The US allegedly carried out two strikes in Pakistan on October 31st, one of them in Asori, north Waziristan, that killed up to 25 people, which - according to a single source which offered no citation - also counted civilians. Though some reports, including Taliban sources, contested the high casualty numbers. Following the strike, Urkunet…
Summary
Published
31 October 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–20
Military actors reported killed
3–25
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
31 October 2008
Incident Code
B38
Location
Kari Kot, South Waziristan, Pakistan
In the second alleged US-waged strike on October 31st, up to 12 people, including at leats one civilian, were killed and between two and 30 were left wounded, as a strike targeted local Taliban leader Maulvi Nazir in Kari Kot, south Waziristan, local and international media reported. There was wide variation in the numbers of casualties…
Summary
Published
31 October 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
0–30
Military actors reported killed
4–12
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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