Tag: Drone

CIA suspends drone missile strikes in Pakistan: report

The US Central Intelligence Agency has suspended drone missile strikes on gatherings of low-ranking militants in Pakistan due to tensions with the country, The...

CIA suspends drone strikes in Pakistan: report

The US Central Intelligence Agency has suspended drone missile strikes on gatherings of low-ranking militants in Pakistan due to tensions with the country, The...

Drone victims issue legal notice to UK

The heirs of a leading tribal elder, who along with around 50 other people was killed in a US drone attack on March 17,...

UK govt pressed over US drone strikes in Pakistan

Lawyers for a Pakistani man who says his father was killed in an American drone strike called on Britain Saturday to reveal whether it...

Where are relations heading?

The murky waters of Pak-US ties As the US and Pakistan continue to bluff and posture to influence each other’s position over Afghanistan, one is...

US Republicans mock Obama on lost drone

US Republicans vying to oust Barack Obama from the White House ridiculed the Democratic president on Thursday for asking arch-foe Iran to "pretty please"...

US reins in drone strikes for fear of getting shot down

As the United States holds back on its drone strikes in the tribal areas in the wake of the deadly NATO strike on Pakistani...

US drone strikes ‘on hold’ in Pakistan: report

As the US-Pakistan relationship continues to unravel, the US has placed its covert air campaign that targets al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan's...

Iran scoffs at Obama request for US drone’s return

Iran on Tuesday scoffed at US President Barack Obama's request for it to return a sophisticated US drone, with a foreign ministry spokesman stressing...

Obama asks Iran to return downed US drone

US President Barack Obama acknowledged for the first time Monday that a US drone was in Iranian hands and said the United States has...

Iran to reverse-engineer US drone: Iranian MP

Iran will reverse-engineer the US drone it has in its possession, and is in the "final stages" of unlocking the aircraft's "secrets", the head...

US drones in Pakistani airspace to be shot down

Pakistan will shoot down any US drone that intrudes its air space according to new directives, a senior Pakistani official said on Sunday. “Any...

Lull in US drone strike after Nov 26 attack: Tribesmen

Tribesmen in North Waziristan have said that no drone attack was carried out in the tribal areas since incident of November 26 when NATO...

Drone shot down by Iran ‘may’ belong to US: ISAF

The NATO-led military force in Afghanistan said that a drone which Iran reported shooting down in its territory "may" belong to the United States. "The...

Iran shoots down US drone

Iran's military on Sunday shot down a US Army RQ-170 unmanned aerial vehicle after it violated Iranian territory in the east, near the Afghanistan...

Collateral damage?

I was shocked to see a report which says that almost 83 percent people who are killed in US drone attacks in tribal areas...

Pakistan to take up US drone strikes issue in UN

Pakistan has decided to take up the issue of strikes by the CIA-run unmanned aircraft in the country's tribal regions as the government, rights...