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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
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
),
Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)
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
(
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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Incident Date
26 October 2008
Incident Code
B36
Location
Mandata, South Waziristan, Pakistan
A suspected US attack on Maulvi Nazir‘s network in Mandata, south Waziristan, killed up to nine civilians, though it was initially claimed that the strike killed either "twenty militants" or 18 "local people" as reported by an internal tribal agency administration document. BBC, who cited eye witnesses, reported that "the missile strike completely destroyed Mohammed…
Summary
Published
26 October 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–9
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military actors reported killed
10–20
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
23 October 2008
Incident Code
B35
Location
Danda Darpakhel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
A suspected US attack on a seminary allegedly linked to the Haqqani Network in Danda Darpakhel, north Waziristan, killed up to eleven people, hereof up to 10 civilians - mostly children - international and local media reported. According to residents and local officials, two missiles struck a madrasa, a religious school in the area, rendering…
Summary
Published
23 October 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
7–10
Civilians reported injured
3–11
Military actors reported killed
0–10
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
16 October 2008
Incident Code
B34
Location
Taparghai, South Waziristan, Pakistan
A suspected US drone killed as many as nine people, including up to four civilians, and wounded another seven, as an alleged al-Qaeda leader's car was struck in Taparghai, south Waziristan, local and international media reported. Most reported that Egyptian Khalid Habib, al Qaeda’s chief of external operations, was reported killed in his parked vehicle along…
Summary
Published
16 October 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–4
Civilians reported injured
1–7
Military actors reported killed
1–5
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
11 October 2008
Incident Code
B33
Location
Miram Shah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
The reputed house of Rahmat Jahan, situated in an abandoned Afghan refugee camp in Miram Shah, north Waziristan, was attacked killing four or five five militants while wounding two others. Residents, quoted by Dawn, said that they had heard four explosions and seen Predator drones flying over the area, and that two missiles had struck…
Summary
Published
11 October 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military actors reported killed
4–5
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
9 October 2008
Incident Code
B32
Location
Ghundikala, North Waziristan, Pakistan
A suspected US-waged attack in Ghundikala, north Waziristan, allegedly aimed at a meeting of al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed up to nine people, including at least three civilians, local and international media reported. A security official told the Telegraph how "two missiles were fired, completely destroying the house." There were claims that Pakistani intelligence…
Summary
Published
9 October 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Civilians reported injured
2
Military actors reported killed
5–9
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
3 October 2008
Incident Code
B30
Location
Datta Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Two women and a child were killed in an early morning strike on two houses in Datta Khel, north Waziristan, which also injured five men, local and international media reported. It was, however, not specified whether the wounded men were militants or civilians. Some reports claimed this was a NATO airstrike rather than a drone…
Summary
Published
3 October 2008
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
0–5
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
3 October 2008
Incident Code
B31
Location
Mohammed Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
A suspected US strike in Mohammed Khel, north Waziristan, killed up to 14 civilians, including three children and one woman, in a strike that in total killed as many as 21 people, local and international media reported. Following the strike, villager Bakht Ali later told news agencies: "We found body parts scattered all over the…
Summary
Published
3 October 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
7–14
Military actors reported killed
7–16
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
30 September 2008
Incident Code
B29
Location
Khushali, South Waziristan, Pakistan
A suspected US drone killed up to eight people and wounded as many as nine in the village of Khushali, south Waziristan, local media reported, though it was unclear whether the casualties were militants or civilians. After tribesmen fired on three drones circling their village, a Predator reportedly killed up to eight people in an…
Summary
Published
30 September 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–8
Civilians reported injured
0–9
Military actors reported killed
0–8
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
17 September 2008
Incident Code
B28
Location
Baghar Cheena, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to seven alleged militants were reported killed and between three and seven were injured in a suspected US attack on a house said to belong to supporters of militant leader Maulvi Nazir. According to some reports, the killed were militants, including three "Arabs". However, a security official in Peshawar said to Dawn that the identifies…
Summary
Published
17 September 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–7
Civilians reported injured
0–7
Military actors reported killed
0–7
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
12 September 2008
Incident Code
B27
Location
Tol Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
A US drone attack on a former school in Tol Khel, north Waziristan, killed between 10 and 15 people, with nearby houses also reported damaged. The Express reported that 12 members of one family died in the attack, and that whilst most were "local Taliban," three women and two children were among the dead. The…
Summary
Published
12 September 2008
Civilians reported killed
0–5
Civilians reported injured
0–14
Military actors reported killed
7–12
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
8 September 2008
Incident Code
B26
Location
Miram Shah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
A US drone strike killed up to 25 people, the majority civilian children, women and men, and wounded more than 20, as the house of Haqqani Network’s leader in Miram Shah, North Waziristan, was struck, local and international media reported. "Five missiles fired from an American pilotless aircraft on Monday hit a large compound in North…
Summary
Published
8 September 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
13–20
Civilians reported injured
14–20
Military actors reported killed
4–15
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
5 September 2008
Incident Code
B25
Location
Gurwak, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to seven civilians, all of them women and children, were killed in a possible US drone strike on the Pakistan-Afghan border, that also killed up to seven militants, local and international sources reported. Following the incident, an eye witness told Reuters that "two drones were flying in the area. They fired three missiles." According to…
Summary
Published
5 September 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
),
Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)
Civilians reported killed
5–7
Civilians reported injured
1–2
Military actors reported killed
4–7
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
4 September 2008
Incident Code
B23c
Location
Char Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Internal data collected by the FATA government said ‘an attack’ hit Char Khel, near Miranshah, on September 3rd, 2009, killing five and injuring four. An unspecified number of civilians were among the fatalities. The FATA database is a record of drone strikes and cross-border Nato assaults and this strike could be a second Nato ground…
Summary
Published
4 September 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
),
Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)
Civilians reported killed
0–5
Civilians reported injured
0–4
Military actors reported killed
0–5
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
4 September 2008
Incident Code
B24
Location
Mohammad Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Suspected US drones killed up to six people, including al Qaeda logistician Abu Wafa al Saudi, and wounded another four, in an attack on a house, a variety of sources reported. One media, however, claimed that the victims were innocent. Dawn cited locals who said that the suspected US drone had fired three missiles at a…
Summary
Published
4 September 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–6
Civilians reported injured
0–4
Military actors reported killed
0–6
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
2 September 2008
Incident Code
B23
Location
Mohammad Khel, Datta Khel, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Up to ten militants were killed and one, possible civilian, was killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan, sources reported. The location of this strike was a mystery at first. The only details came from a leaked secret US intelligence report: "A Predator killed four to 10 persons associated with Al Qaeda commander and…
Summary
Published
2 September 2008
Civilians reported injured
0–1
Military actors reported killed
10
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
30 August 2008
Incident Code
B21
Location
Korzai, South Waziristan, Pakistan
A US strike in Korzai, south Waziristan killed up to five militants, including two Arab-Canadians – the first known westerners to be killed in a drone strike in Pakistan, as reported by international and local media. Internal records collected by the local tribal administration showed five people were killed in this attack, two of them…
Summary
Published
30 August 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
Military actors reported killed
4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
30 August 2008
Incident Code
B22
Location
Miram Shah, North Waziristan, Pakistan
Between six and 11 people, including up to nine civilians - counting women and children - were killed along with alleged Arab and Uzbek militants, as a US strike hit a al-Qa'ida safe house in Miram Shah, north Waziristan, local and international media reported. The Long War Journal reported that "the US has targeted an…
Summary
Published
30 August 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
2–9
Civilians reported injured
1–8
Military actors reported killed
2–6
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
27 August 2008
Incident Code
B20
Location
Ganki Khel, South Waziristan, Pakistan
Four civilians, one woman and three children, were wounded by a US drone strike in Ganki Khel, south Waziristan, locals told international media, though the strike, according to the US, did not result in civilian harm. A secret US document identifies a previously unknown (and failed) attack in Ganki Khel, south Waziristan: "A Predator attempted…
Summary
Published
27 August 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported injured
4
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date
20 August 2008
Incident Code
B19
Location
Zari Noor, South Waziristan, Pakistan
An alleged US Predator fired two Hellfire missiles on a house in the Zari Noor village, south Waziristan, killing up to a dozen people, possibly targeting militant Haji Yaqub Wazir, who had played a key role in peace agreements with Pakistan’s military, local and international media reported. Following the strike, reports said that at least…
Summary
Published
20 August 2008
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
0–5
Civilians reported injured
0–2
Military actors reported killed
5–12
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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