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The U.S. strikes killed between 238 and 298 people, of whom between 227 and 277 were combatants, and between 11 and 21 were civilians. [10] In Somalia, there were a total of 263 U.S. counter-terrorism airstrikes, drone strikes, and ground raids from 2003 to 2021. Of the 263, the majority (202) occurred under the Trump administration.
The U.S. drone strike that killed Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki was conducted under a policy approved by U.S. President Barack Obama. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Two U.S. officials speaking on condition of anonymity stated that the target of the October 14, 2011, airstrike was Ibrahim al-Banna , an Egyptian believed to be a senior operative in al-Qaeda in ...
Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki (Arabic: أنور العولقي, romanized: Anwar al-'Awlaqī; April 21 or 22, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American-Yemeni lecturer and jihadist who was killed in 2011 in Yemen by a U.S. government drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki became the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and ...
President Joe Biden said Sunday that the U.S. “shall respond” after three American troops were killed and dozens more were injured in an overnight drone strike in northeast Jordan near the ...
The U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday that one of the three U.S. Army Reservists killed in a drone strike in Jordan Sunday was from Savannah.
On the same day of the Baghdad airport strike, an IRGC financier and key commander, Abdulreza Shahlai, [g] was unsuccessfully targeted by U.S. drones in Yemen, [147] which killed Mohammad Mirza, a Quds Force operative, instead. [148] Shahlai was also responsible for the killing of five American soldiers in Karbala, Iraq on 20 January 2007. [149]
On 31 July 2022, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Salafi jihadist group al-Qaeda, was killed by a United States drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. Al-Zawahiri was one of the planners of the September 11 attacks against the United States.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Three U.S. service members were killed and at least 34 wounded in a drone attack by Iran-backed militants on U.S. troops in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border ...