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5 Jun, 2015
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen

Podcast: “Sudden Justice” author Chris Woods on CIA accountability and the politics of US drone wars

John Brennan, the Director of the CIA since March 2013 Transferring control of the US drone programme away from the CIA could paradoxically result in less accountability, author and investigative journalist Chris Woods told this week’s Drone News. Since President Barack Obama announced in April that a CIA drone strike on an al Qaeda compound in […]
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2 Jun, 2015
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen

Monthly drone report, May 2015: US strikes kill at least 48 in three countries

A US helicopter ferrying military advisers over Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, where US aircraft killed at least 34 this month (USAF) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i. Key points: A Pew Research Center poll finds strong support in the US for drone strikes Three US strikes kill at least 34 in Afghanistan The US continues to bomb Yemen in […]
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1 May, 2015
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen

Monthly Drone Report, April 2015: Western drone deaths reach 38

Spanish citizen Raquel Burgos Garcia died in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan in 2005. (AP Photo/Nicolas Asfouri) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i. Key points: Drones have killed 38 Westerners since 2002 including two al Qaeda hostages killed in January. US air strikes continue in Afghanistan but the vacuum of information remains. Most drone strikes in Yemen in a […]
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1 Apr, 2015
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia

Monthly Drone Report, March 2015: US drone strikes drop 50% as chaos envelops Yemen

Saudi jets have began bombing Houthi targets across its southern border in Yemen EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i. Key points: US drone strike frequency halves from Q4 2014 to Q1 2015 Strikes appear to target the Pakistan Taliban in Afghanistan A single CIA strike kills three in Pakistan as Islamabad forces hammer the tribal areas Yemen sinks […]
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6 Dec, 2013
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen

The Bureau talks to Jeremy Scahill about Dirty Wars and drones

‘I don’t think we’ve scratched the surface of what’s happened’, Jeremy Scahill tells the Bureau (Photo: Civic Bakery) Journalist and filmmaker Jeremy Scahill says that handing control of CIA drone operations to the military could lead to ‘very serious abuses’, in Drone News, the Bureau’s new drones podcast. Scahill met the Bureau’s Alice K Ross when […]
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4 Dec, 2012
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen

Revealed: US and Britain launched 1,200 drone strikes in recent wars

An MQ-9 Reaper returns to Kandahar from an Afghan mission. (USAF/Tech Sgt Chad Chisholm) Recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq have seen almost 1,200 drone strikes over the past five years, according to new data released to the Bureau. The information, much of it classified until now, shows that US Air Force drones carried […]