Tag: US drone
US drone strike kills four suspected militants near Pak-Afghan border
PESHAWAR: Four persons have been killed in a drone attack in Kurram Agency near the Pak-Afghan border.
A suspected US drone strike on Thursday targeted...
Asad Afridi likely to head Jamaat-ul-Ahrar after US drone strike kills...
PESHAWAR: Senior militant commander Asad Afridi has emerged as the favourite to become the new leader of a deadly Pakistani Taliban faction, militant sources...
US drone strike kills five near Pak-Afghan border in Kurram
PESHAWAR: At least five people were reported killed in a US-led drone strike near Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Kurram Agency, sources told Pakistan Today.
The strike...
China to return seized US drone, says Washington ‘hyping up’ incident
China will return an underwater US drone seized by a naval vessel this week in the South China Sea, both countries said on Saturday,...
Seized US drone issue to be resolved smoothly: China paper
China expects a smooth resolution to the seizure by its navy of "unidentified" equipment found in the South China Sea, a state-run newspaper said...
Afghan president ordered US drone strike on APS mastermind, says envoy
Afghan Ambassador in Islamabad Dr Omar Zakhilwal on Thursday claimed that the air strike which killed Peshawar Army Public School (APS) massacre mastermind Umar...
APS attack mastermind likely killed in US drone strike: report
A senior Pakistani Taliban leader believed to be the mastermind of the Army Public School (APS) massacre may have been killed in a US...
US drone strike kills four suspected militants in Afghanistan
At least four suspected militants were killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, near Pakistan's Khyber Agency, security officials said on...
US drone crashes in southern Afghanistan
An unmanned American aircraft crashed at an airfield in southern Afghanistan less than three months after an identical drone went down in November, a...
US drone ‘targeting’ TTP’s Sajna kills 18 militants
At least 18 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants of the banned organisation's Sajna group were killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan's Paktika province on...
US drone strike kills 15 Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan
Suspected terrorists belonged to Gandapur faction of TTP which allegedly carried out Peshawar school attack last year
A US drone strike killed at least 15...
‘US drone’ kills three Qaeda suspects in Yemen
Three suspected al Qaeda militants were killed on Friday in an apparent US drone strike in Marib province, east of the capital Sanaa, tribal...
UN experts seek more transparency on US drone war
UN rights experts on Wednesday hailed a US move to review counter-terrorism operations after a botched drone attack in Pakistan killed two foreign hostages,...
US drone war under scrutiny after botched strike
President Barack Obama’s admission Thursday that a US drone strike accidentally took the lives of two hostages has raised fresh questions about the limits...
US drone strike kills 11 TTP militants in Afghanistan: sources
A US drone strike killed 11 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militants in northeastern Afghanistan, including six or seven senior commanders, intelligence officials said on Wednesday, hours...
Syria downed US drone over spying fears
Syria's military said on Wednesday it downed an American drone over suspicions it was spying, in what would be its first attack on an...
US drone kills six in Pak-Afghan border area
At least six militants were killed in a US drone attack in Pak-Afghan border area on Friday.
The sources said that an unmanned aircraft targeted...
