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‘Friendly fire’: US Airstrike Hits Afghan police officers & MSF appeals for protection
On July 21st, the New York Times reported that an American airstrike in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand has killed several members of the Afghan security forces. The police have been struggling since 2014 as the resurgent Taliban militants have regained territory in … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Airstrikes, Civilian deaths, Friendly fire, US, US government, USA
Tagged Helmand, Medecins Sans Frontiers, Taliban
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War crimes: Mosul families count their dead as US airstrikes kill thousands of civilians
Award-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent of The Independent, writes from Mosul, recording accusations by local people who assert the US-led coalition has ‘massively’ overused force. They allege that the intensity of the bombardment from the air was out of … Continue reading
Posted in Airstrikes, Civilian deaths, Iraq, Syria, US government, USA
Tagged Airstrikes, Daesh, ISIS, Mosul, Patrick Cockburn, rescue team, underequipped Iraqis, US-led coalition forces
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Sikander Ahmed Shah: first objective, halting drone strikes – the second, reparation
For years the legality of using armed drones has been challenged by individuals and organisations – as a search on this website will reveal. Another analyst, Sikander Ahmed Shah of Lahore University of Management Sciences, Department of Law and Policy reflected … Continue reading
Posted in Airstrikes, Armed drones, Civilian deaths, Drone strikes, Human rights, International law, Pakistan, UN, Uncategorized, US, US government
Tagged access to justice, Draft Articles on State Responsibility (DASR), extra-judicial killings, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Human rights, humanitarian law., Shamsi Air Base, the right to a fair trial
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Armed drones: how remote-controlled, high-tech weapons are used against the poor
In 2011 David Hookes explored the ethical and legal implications of the growing use of armed, unmanned planes in the ‘war against terrorism’. The rapidly increasing use of aerial robot weapons in the so-called ‘war against terrorism’ is raising many … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Armed drones, Civilian deaths, Iraq, Legal action, Pakistan
Tagged collateral damage, David Hookes
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Legacy: “Obama scattered his drones and special forces throughout the Muslim world”
In January, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported that President Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and … Continue reading
Another airstrike killing Yemeni civilians
Yesterday the Times reported that a Saudi warplanes near Yemen’s rebel-held capital struck and killed several people on Wednesday, according to medical officials. These included a group of ten women attending the funeral in Arhab, 25 miles from Sanaa, according … Continue reading
Posted in Airstrikes, Civilian deaths, Saudi Arabia., Yemen
Tagged Houthis, Iran's Hassan Rouhani, UN chief António Guterres
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President Trump, his predecessors and all ‘complicit by their silence’ are to blame for this insanity
Paul Gosling retweeted NYT’s report of Yemen’s anger at the civilian casualties incurred last month in the first commando raid authorized by President Trump (covered on this site here): Yemen has withdrawn permission for the United States to run Special Operations … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Airstrikes, CIA, Civilian deaths, Donald Trump, Human rights, Pentagon, US government, Yemen
Tagged Al Qaeda, AQAP, special operations, International Crisis Group, Paul Gosling
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