Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Peter Bergen, April 2012 The Associated Press (AP) noted that Barack Obama apparently expanded the scope and increased the aggressiveness of the drone campaign against militants in Pakistan after taking office. According to the news agency, the US increased strikes against the Pakistani Taliban, which earned favor from the Pakistani government, resulting in increased cooperation from Pakistani ...
31 October 2011: Three people including two boys, Tariq Aziz and his 12-year-old cousin Waheed Khan were killed in a U.S. drone strike in the Miranshah area North Waziristan. Prior to his killing, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz had helped the Bureau of Investigative Journalism document civilian casualties caused by drone strikes.
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.
2014 Peshawar school massacre. Coordinates: 34°00′49″N 71°32′10″E. 2014 Peshawar School Massacre. سانحہ آرمی پبلک اسکول. Army Public School Auditorium, Peshawar, Pakistan. Location of the attack: Army Public School is located in the centre. Location. Peshawar, Warsak Road, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Deaths by drone strikes of the Central Intelligence Agency in Pakistan (15 P) Pages in category "Deaths by American drone strikes in Pakistan" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
The 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan (also known as the Salala incident, Salala attack or 26/11 attacks) [5] [6] was a border skirmish that occurred when United States-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border on 26 November 2011, with both sides later claiming that the other had fired first. [7]
The modern Middle East has seen a number of occasions in which the assassination of high-level government and military figures was attempted, or at least considered. Such instances include United States decapitation strike air raids targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1991, 1998, and 2003, in addition to killings or attempted killings of non-state ...
United States. 23 June 2009 Makin airstrike was an attack launched by United States drones on a funeral procession in the city of Makin in South Waziristan, Pakistan. [1] Over 60 people were reported killed in what is considered perhaps the deadliest strike since the drone attacks started. [1] Other sources claimed up to 83 people were dead. [2]