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Aerial attacks: ISIS uses coalition tactics – albeit on a smaller scale
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
Posted in Iraq, Pentagon, USA
Tagged geofencing, ISIS, Middle East, MIT Technology Review, modified drones, no-fly zones, Shenzhen’s DJI, Syria
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Britain killed our children with its ‘precision’ bombing from drones and jets
And ISIS arrives in Afghanistan Earlier this month, Anthony Loyd wrote from Kabul in Afghanistan about Pashtuns living in refugee camps or in remote villages of Helmand districts. These Afghans, from the most heavily contested areas of Helmand, know at … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Civilian deaths, Syria, Yemen
Tagged Helmand, ISIS, Kabul, Pashtun refugees, Russians, Syria, Taliban
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No peace for Yemen and Pakistan
Just as it seemed that American focus was on Syria, giving the Yemen and Pakistan a much needed period of peace, Al Jazeera reported earlier this week that drones fired two missiles on a compound in the village of Dargah … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian deaths, Pakistan, Yemen
Tagged 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, Human rights, Syria, Taliban, Tawakkol Karman
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