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The American military base is seen in the distance in Agadez, Niger, January 15, 2018. Drones in the Sahara A Massive U.S. Drone Base Could Destabilize Niger -- and May Even Be Illegal Under Its Constitution
Welcome to Dubai, home of the world's tallest building, an indoor ski resort, and--coming in July 2017--a drone passenger service featuring China's Ehang 184.
(And maybe the Amazon, too)
This Tuesday, the Ethiopian government told the US military that they could no longer operate an airfield within its borders to conduct drone operations.
Game changer 'insect' drone allows MoD to spy on ISIS - for 90 days straight
But they're between five and fourteen times cheaper
A legal adviser met them there and said that "there was money awaiting us." He then picked up a blue plastic bag" Jaber said. Inside the bag was $100,000 in U.S. cash, "freshly minted" $100 bills wrapped in rubber bands, Jaber said. "The money was
Research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, an independent news organisation based at City University, London, has found that only 12% of victims of US drone strikes in Pakistan could be identified as militants.
Just one in 50 victims of America's deadly drone strikes in Pakistan are terrorists – while the rest are innocent civilians, a new report claimed today. The authoritative joint study, by Stanford and New York Universities, concludes that men, wo
The Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Islamic resistance movement Hamas, are flying a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) over the Gaza Strip and are using social media to show footage and photographs of the rarely seen Ababil A1B armed dro
On April 19, 2104, Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz meet with People's Liberation Army Deputy Chief of Staff Lt. General Wang Guanzhong to sign a contract for an unspecified amount of Pterodactyl unmanned aerial systems ( aka drones).
A federal appeals court ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to turn over key portions of a memorandum justifying the government's targeted killing of people linked to terrorism, including Americans.
Dozens are reportedly dead in Yemen, including at least three civilians, as the result of a series of drone strikes that started in the southern part of the country on Saturday and is alleged to still be occurring two days later.
A U.S. drone strike has killed a New Zealander and Australian in Yemen reported Al Jazeera on April 16, 2014. It has been confirmed that a citizen from each country has been killed in U.S. strikes in Yemen.
Most 'Suspects' But Some Confirmed Civilian Deaths
In an attempt to put a face on civilian victims of U.S. drone strikes, a group of artists has installed a massive portrait of a girl facing up from a field in Pakistan. The poster, measuring 90 by 60 feet and made of vinyl, was unrolled with the help
The United Nations adopted a resolution, jointly presented by Pakistan, Yemen and Switzerland, against drone strikes. 6 countries including the USA, France and Britain voted against the resolution, but fell short in majority to get it disposed of.
A new report on the December 12 U.S. drone strike that killed 12 guests at a Yemeni wedding calls on President Obama to come clean on the standards it uses to decide who lives and who dies and when drones are an appropriate weapon in the so-called “W
President Obama violated his own rules for the use of drone strikes in a December 2013 strike on a wedding procession in Yemen, a new report from Human Rights Watch says. The US military initially claimed that the procession
"Drone strikes take out a few bad guys to be sure, but they also kill a large number of innocent civilians. Given Yemen's tribal structure, the U.S. generates roughly forty to sixty new enemies for every AQAP operative killed by drones."
US Had Just Promised Today to Hold Off on Future Drone Strikes
The “Bureau of Investigative Journalism,” has calculated that from 2004 to July 2013, 370 drone strikes had killed between 2,548 and 3,549 humans. This estimate included between 411 and 890 civilian deaths and between 168 and 197 children deaths.
It was a contradiction that perfectly captured the essence of the U.S. drone war against Islamic terrorists: Just as we learned that strikes in Yemen had resumed after a three-month hiatus
The cleric preached in his tiny Yemeni village about the evils of al-Qaida, warning residents to stay away from the group's fighters and their hard-line ideology.
Though still a concept, this robot lifeguard should be one robot people are grateful to see coming.
More than 3,000 people in Pakistan have been killed by drone strikes. Were they enemies? That's where it gets tricky.
After days of meeting with Pakistani officials, the United Nations official investigating Washington’s global campaign of drone strikes attacked the legal and strategic basis for the robotic war in its biggest battlefield.
The billions of dollars of American aid flowing into Afghanistan every year may be inadvertently fueling the insurgency and the corruption rampant within the government and financial sectors
The US Congress is so in thrall to the American Israel lobby AIPAC that it more of a hindrance to the peace process than the Knesset itself.