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Press TV claims at least 383 Somali civilians have been killed by US drone attacks. An Iranian TV station appears to have faked dozens of accounts of US drone strikes in Somalia which it says have killed hundreds of civilians. Press TV, which was fined £100,000 by Ofcom on Thursday after the station hid the […]

As US under-secretary of defense in the early 1990s, Major General Kenneth Israel was one of the first to see the potential of combat drones. Now a vice-president of arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin, he was in London recently to chair a conference on UAVs, where he spoke to the Bureau.  How did armed drones come about? […]

Chris Cole is an activist and campaigner, pushing for accountability on armed drones. He writes the respected blog Drone Wars UK, which earlier this year uncovered details of the first civilian deaths caused by UK drones. Along with others he demonstrated outside the Unmanned Aircraft Systems conference held in London last week.  The conference appears […]

Two British nationals are believed to have been killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan, family and friends of the men have told the Press Association. According to PA, Ibrahim Adam and Mohammed Azmir were killed in Waziristan three months or more ago. Their deaths were confirmed to PA by other sources. According to […]

On Monday October 31, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz was killed in a US drone strike near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Three days earlier, Bureau reporter Pratap Chatterjee met the teenager at a conference in Islamabad, where local people came together to discuss the impact of U.S. drone strikes in their communities. Related article: Bureau reporter meets 16-year-old […]

Al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia The Bureau Recommends an article in the Washington Post, which reveals that the US Air Force has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones from a remote airbase in Ethiopia. According to the report, millions of dollars have been spent on upgrading the airfield in Arba Minch, which now houses a fleet […]

In a recent edition of The Times a correspondent writes: ‘In a war in which information and perception play as important a role as tanks and jets, the images of wooden coffins on the shoulders of grieving men will make uncomfortable viewing in London and Paris.’ The journalist, Deborah Haynes, is reporting from a frontline town […]

US Special Forces can call on Navy assets in the region. Photo,US Department of Defense A military drone operated by elite US Special Forces has targeted al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia, killing several people. The attack marks the first confirmed hostile use of drones in the east African country. Bureau research suggests unmanned surveillance craft […]