FO condemns Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia
The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday condemned the drone strikes carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on oil pumping stations in Saudi Arabia a day earlier. In a statement, it said, “Pakistan…
Paktika drone strike kills senior Taliban commander
PESHAWAR: A senior Taliban was killed in the aftermath of a United States (US) drone strike in Afghanistan’s Pakita province on Sunday. According to a local media outlet, terrorist Saifullah, along with…
Pakistani Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah killed in Afghanistan
–Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman confirms notorious terrorist’s killing in US drone strike in Kunar province on June 13 –Drone targeted vehicle carrying Fazlullah and four other senior commanders of proscribed terror outfit…
Daesh militant killed in US drone strike on militant hideout in Afghanistan
KABUL: A Daesh militant was killed in a drone strike conducted by the US military on the terrorist outfit’s hideout in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Monday, reported the Afghan…
Drone strike kills eight suspected militants, destroys Taliban drug factory in W Afghanistan
KABUL: An unmanned plane has targeted a drug lab of Taliban in the western Farah province, killing eight militants and destroying a drug lab of the outfit, the official media outlet Bakhtar…
TTP appoints Maulvi Khatir as acting chief after Sajna’s killing
PESHAWAR: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) Mehsud Halqa has appointed Maulvi Khatir as acting chief of their faction after TTP’s deputy chief Khan Said Sajna was reportedly killed in a US drone strike in the…
TTP’s Sajna reportedly killed in US drone strike in NWA
A US drone strike along the Pak-Afghan border in the North Waziristan region has reportedly killed the deputy chief of the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Sajna Mehsud, according to unconfirmed reports on…
Drone strike kills seven al Qaeda suspects in Yemen
ADEN: A drone strike early Saturday killed seven suspected al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen, a security official said. The US military is the only force known to operate armed drones over…
US drone strike kills two Haqqani network’s militants in N Waziristan
PESHAWAR: Pakistani officials and police on Wednesday said two missiles fired from a US drone have struck a home near the Afghan border, killing two militants from the Haqqani network. Local police chief…
Drone strikes in Kurram Agency near Pak-Afghan border kills two, injures one
PARACHINAR: At least two men were killed and one was severely injured in two separate drone strikes, each on either side of the Pak-Afghan border on Wednesday. According to media reports, a missile fired…
IHC declares transfer of FIR against former CIA station chief in 2009 drone case ‘illegal’
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday restored the FIR (First Information Report) against former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief Jonathan Banks and legal adviser John A Rizzo, while declaring…
Govt says JuA chief Khorasani’s killing in drone strike not confirmed yet
–Defence secy says Rs100b to be spent on new Army General Headquarters in Islamabad ISLAMABAD: The news of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) chief Umar Khalid Khorasani’s killing in a recent US drone strike has not…
“White Widow’ Sally Jones ‘killed in US drone strike in Syria’
The renowned British Daesh recruiter Sally Jones aka “White Widow” has been killed by a US drone strike in Syria, reports The Independent. The Islamist militant, who left Kent to join ISIS in 2013, was killed close…
Three suspected militants killed in Kurram Agency drone strike
US drone attacks inside Pakistan have become rare over the past few years.
TTP leader among 40 killed in drone strike in Afghanistan
At least 40 Daesh insurgents including one of the group’s senior leaders, Ghaznawi Orakzai, were killed and injured in US drone strikes in eastern Nangarhar province, Afghan media said on Tuesday. The…
US releases redacted drone strike ‘playbook’
The US government has released a once-secret policy document once dubbed “the playbook” that shows how officials select drone targets in areas outside war zones and the key role the president has…
Pakistan to raise US drone strike issue at all forums, Aziz tells Senate
Senate extends work ambit of committee probing Mansour’s death in US strike Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Thursday extended the work ambit of the joint committee constituted last week to probe the…