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‘Friendly fire’: US Airstrike Hits Afghan police officers & MSF appeals for protection

Posted on July 22, 2017 by

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 →

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Sikander Ahmed Shah: first objective, halting drone strikes – the second, reparation

Posted on June 14, 2017 by

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 →

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Aerial attacks: ISIS uses coalition tactics – albeit on a smaller scale 

Posted on April 28, 2017 by

Tim Bradshaw (Financial Times) reports that ISIS has been using low-cost “quadcopters”, assembled using kits instead of buying ‘off-the-shelf’, to drop improvised bombs in Syria and Iraq. US military officials have become increasingly concerned about ISIS’ use of drones such … Continue reading →

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Legacy: “Obama scattered his drones and special forces throughout the Muslim world”

Posted on March 13, 2017 by

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 →

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Iraqi MPs and medics say fifty-five civilians killed in air strike on Qaim

Posted on December 7, 2016 by

Local hospital sources said air strikes hit a busy tailor’s market in the town of al-Qaim, an Islamic State-held town in Iraq’s Anbar province, killing 55 civilians including 12 women and 19 children, in three air strikes. The bodies of … Continue reading →

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Innocents living under drone flights: depressed, suicidal, massacred

Posted on November 28, 2016 by

In October last year The Intercept published an eight-piece story on the United States’ use of armed drones around the world, citing leaked documents which appeared to show that nine out of every ten people killed in a US ‘targeted killing’ … Continue reading →

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The so-called ‘forgotten war’? Forgotten by the media who profit from the guilty aggressors – but highlighted by unsuborned journalists

Posted on October 16, 2016 by

Yesterday, the Today programme referred to this horror as a ‘forgotten war’ – but it has never been forgotten by investigative journalists like Felicity Arbuthnot, who has written in detail about the savage air strikes carried out carried out by … Continue reading →

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