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How Twitter mapped a ‘covert’ US drone operation in Yemen

May 18th, 2012 by | 1 Comment
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Local paper Mukallastar.com reports on a drone-destroyed car

Social media tracks drone attacks in eastern Yemen.


Suspected drone strikes kill 12 civilians in Yemen

May 15th, 2012 by
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MQ-9 Reaper - AN HONOURABLE GERMAN/Flickr

Biggest loss of civilian life in reported drone strike this year.


Details of 99 UK drone strikes in Afghanistan revealed

March 1st, 2012 by | 1 Comment
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Reaper Pilots Take Control

For the first time, Drone Wars UK charts all published UK-Afghan strikes.


Militants and civilians killed in multiple US Somalia strikes

February 22nd, 2012 by | 4 Comments
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US Navy Seals in training (US Army/ Flickr)

Up to 21 US military strikes in Somalia since 2007 have killed as many as 169 people


Calls for transparency following Bureau report on US drones

February 10th, 2012 by
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Predator Drone - Flickr/Doctress Neutopia

US media condemns government allegation that investigation aids al Qaeda.


‘Every brigade has its own drone’: An interview with Major General Jeff Buchanan

December 16th, 2011 by
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US Air Force General Atomics MQ-1 Predator Unmaned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) - Flickr/james_gordon_los_angeles

The Bureau speaks to the chief spokesperson for the US Forces in Iraq.


CIA drones quit one Pakistan site – but US keeps access to other airbases

December 15th, 2011 by | 2 Comments
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Shamsi drones

US still has access to at least one airfield from which armed drones can operate.


Analysis: After eight years in Iraq’s skies where now for US drones?

December 14th, 2011 by | 2 Comments
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'US Air Force General Atomics MQ-1 Predator Unmaned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)' - Flickr/james_gordon_los_angeles

No US drones to fly over Iraq from year’s end as flag lowered in Baghdad.


Ten years since first deadly drone strike, industry gathers in London

November 21st, 2011 by
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Hellfire missiles being loaded onto a US military Reaper drone in Afghanistan

Bureau reports exclusively from drone conference, as industry marks ten years of armed drones.


Deaths bring to six total Britons killed by CIA drones

November 18th, 2011 by
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Reaper drone (library); David Axe/flickr

British families claim relatives killed by US drones in Waziristan.


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