Tag: Drone

  The CIA has begun closing clandestine bases in Afghanistan, marking the start of a drawdown from a region that transformed the agency from an...

As the United States (US) scales down its drone campaign in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, the American military is shifting its huge fleet of...

  The US drone strikes are widely unpopular in nations across the world, a survey said on Thursday amid criticism from countries including Pakistan over...

    PML-N leader Nisar Ali Khan has said his party had decided to devise a national policy on drone attacks which were violation of national...

  The Pakistani government on Friday reiterated its principled stance on drone attacks by the US forces on its soil, with a Foreign Office spokesman...

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasan on Sunday said that Washington’s statement to continue drone attacks was a challenge for the newly-elected rulers. In a statement,...

  The United States is likely to offer Pakistan its plan to resolve the contentious drone attacks’ issue with a proposal to limit attacks, and...

John Podesta, an influential Democratic Party leader and former White House Chief of the Staff, on Thursday asked the Obama administration to reveal its...

As US officials disavow two recent “drone attacks” in early February, the Pakistan army on Tuesday strongly denied a New York Times report which...

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has captured a foreign drone during a military exercise in southern Iran, the official IRNA news agency said. The...

Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the Pakistani Embassy in Washington to protest against US drone attacks. Activists from CODEPINK, a peace and justice organisation, and...

The US military launched 506 strikes from unmanned aircraft in Afghanistan last year, according to Pentagon data, a 72 percent increase from 2011 and...

A US senator has said an estimated 4,700 people, including some civilians, have been killed in the contentious bombing raids of America's secretive drone war,...

The US Senate Intelligence Committee has postponed a confirmation vote on John O Brennan as CIA director for at least two weeks as lawmakers...

US President Barack Obama has decided to share classified information regarding "legal advice" authorising the use of drones to kill American citizens abroad. an...

A terrorist convicted for his role in the 1997 Luxor massacre and close confidante of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Al Qaeda leader, was killed by...

At least three suspected militants were killed and several others were injured when a US drone targeted a compound near the Pakistan-Afghan border in...