Get the data: What the drones strike
A full dataset and methodology showing what the drones attacked in Pakistan.
A full dataset and methodology showing what the drones attacked in Pakistan.
Read the secret report showing the government’s assessment of over 300 strikes.
See the full leaked Pakistani report on CIA drone attacks.
Reported deaths and injuries
Our complete
Pakistan datasheet
Most recent strike:
February 22 2016
Total strikes: 423
Obama strikes: 372
Total killed: 2,497-3,999
Civilians killed: 423-965
Children killed: 172-207
Injured: 1,161-1,744
Most recent strike:
April 26 2016
Confirmed drone strikes: 117-137
Total killed: 528-765
Civilians killed: 65-101
Children killed: 8-9
Injured: 94-223
Possible extra drone strikes: 89-106
Total killed: 360-513
Civilians killed: 26-61
Children killed: 6-9
Injured: 78-105
Other covert operations: 16-79
Total killed: 206-441
Civilians killed: 68-102
Children killed: 26-28
Injured: 45-132
Our complete
Somalia datasheet
Most recent strike:
April 11 2016
Drone strikes: 24-28
Total killed: 213-377
Civilians killed: 3-10
Children killed: 0-2
Injured: 2-8
Other covert operations: 8-11
Total killed: 40-141
Civilians killed: 7-47
Children killed: 0-2
Injured: 11-21
Our complete
Afghanistan datasheet
Most recent strike:
April 28 2016
Bureau data
Total strikes: 306-311
Total killed: 1,413-1,905
Civilians killed: 75-103
Children killed: 4-18
Injured: 160-165
USAF data
Missions with at least one
weapon release: 140
Total weapons released: 300
For more on the difference between US and Bureau data, read the notes page of our Afghanistan datasheet.
Dataset: US strikes continue in Yemen despite catastrophic civil war and Saudi-led bombing campaign pushing country towards starvation.
Dataset: Civilian casualties fell sharply as drones launched the fewest strikes of the Obama presidency.
Dataset: Nato may have stopped combat operations but the war in Afghanistan continues apace
Dataset: Nato’s combat operations may have stopped, but US counter-terrorism operations continue in Afghanistan
Dataset: US promised to continue its counter terrorism campaign in Yemen despite turmoil that engulfed the country.
Dataset: 2015 began as 2014 ended for the CIA – apparently hunting Taliban fighters along the Afghan border with North Waziristan
Dataset: 2014 started with the longest pause in drone strikes of the 10-year campaign.
Dataset: The Bureau’s database on reported CIA and JSOC air strikes and other covert actions in Yemen.
Dataset: US resumes targeting of alleged militants within days of the year’s start.
Dataset: Increased debate around the use of drones affects the campaign in Pakistan.
Dataset: US covert operations in Yemen peaked in May 2012 with an intense assault on al Qaeda.
Dataset: A searchable record of US covert operations in Yemen from the start of the war on terror.
Dataset: Bureau’s analysis of secretive western military intervention in Somalia since September 2001.
Dataset: Civilian casualties fell sharply as drones launched the fewest strikes of the Obama presidency.
Dataset: Various crises in US-Pakistani relations may have contributed to a decline in strikes in 2011.
Dataset: The largest number of CIA drone strikes hit Pakistan in the campaign so far.
Dataset: In 2009 Obama carried out as many drone strikes on Pakistan as Bush in five years.
Dataset: During President Bush’s time in office there were 52 drone strikes on Pakistan.
Over the past two years, the Bureau has made an extensive study of reports of US covert activities in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Below are the Bureau’s datasets tracking the reported strikes.
Read how the Bureau compiled its data – The methodology.

Who is dying in Pakistan drone strikes? See the Bureau’s Naming the Dead project.