Tehran: Iran claimed on Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran in 2011 including that it was used to spy on Osama bin Laden's house weeks before he was killed by US forces. Iran also said it was building a copy of the surveillance aircraft. This type of drone has been used in Afghanistan for years and was used to keep...
11:02 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Washington: The US has deployed a large number of drones over Syria to monitor Syrian military attack on the opposition forces and civilians, NBC News has reported. Quoting Pentagon officials, the TV channel said that the operation of unmanned aircraft over the Syrian skies was not a harbinger of a US military intervention in the country but to gather evidence that could be used to "make the case for a...
03:36 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Islamabad: The death of a senior al-Qaeda leader in a US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal badlands, the first strike in almost two months, signaled that the US-Pakistan intelligence partnership is still in operation despite political tensions. The January 10 strike and its follow-up two days later were joint operations, a Pakistani security source based in the tribal areas said. They made use of Pakistani "spotters" on the ground and...
10:22 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Islamabad: US drones hit Pakistan's tribal region for a second time in as many days, killing six suspected militants in a targetted missile attack. The drones fired two missiles at two vehicles in North Waziristan, a day after the attacks resumed following a lull of two months in the aftermath of the deadly NATO strike that had killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and made ties with the country take a huge...
09:51 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Iran: Iranian state TV broadcast video on Thursday of what it said was the high-tech US drone that Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week, and lodged a diplomatic complaint over the violation of its airspace. The more than two minutes of footage showed Iranian military officials inspecting what state TV identified as the RQ-170 Sentinel drone, and offered the first evidence that Tehran had captured the aircraft. The...
03:02 AM, Dec 09, 2011
Tehran: Iranian media reported on Sunday that their country's military had shot down a US reconnaissance drone in eastern Iran, but a US official said there was no indication the aircraft had been shot down. NATO's US-led mission in neighbouring Afghanistan said the Iranian report could refer to an unarmed US spy drone that went missing there last week. The incident comes at a time when Tehran is trying to...
11:00 AM, Dec 05, 2011
Los Angeles: A stubborn computer virus has reportedly hit the US Nevada control station that remotely pilot US military drone aircraft on missions in Afghanistan and other war zones, Xinhua reported. The virus has infected the cockpits of American Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke. According to Wired magazine, the virus, first detected about two weeks ago by the military's Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at...
08:35 AM, Oct 09, 2011
Islamabad: A US drone targeted a compound and a vehicle in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 25 militants of al-Qaeda linked Haqqani network, in the first such attack during the Islamic holy month of Ramzan. Eight militants were injured in the attack. They were taken to a hospital in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency. The injured are in a...
05:29 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Islamabad: Twenty suspected militants were killed in two US drone strikes in the restive South Waziristan tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Monday. In the first attack, a drone targeted a vehicle, killing eight suspects militants in Shawal area of South Waziristan Agency. Another drone strike several hours later in Mantoi area, about 30 km from South Waziristan's main town of Wana, killed 12 suspected militants. The drones fired four...
03:32 AM, Jun 28, 2011
London: US and Pakistani authorities disagree sharply over claims that senior al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in a recent missile strike, officials from both countries said on Monday, suggesting sharp strains persist between authorities in Washington and Islamabad. Two days ago, intelligence officials in Pakistan claimed that Kashmiri, a figure in both al Qaeda and a Pakistan-based affiliate, was killed by a US drone-borne missile in northwestern Pakistan....
07:13 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Islamabad: A US drone strike Thursday in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt killed 22 suspected Taliban militants, officials said. Security officials said two missiles hit a house where the militants were taking shelter in Datta Khel town, 40 km west of Miranshah in North Waziristan district, Geo News reported. At least 15 other people were injured in the attacks, Dawn News said. According to DPA, the dead were Taliban militants. The...
03:17 PM, Mar 17, 2011
Islamabad: An unmanned US aircraft on Tuesday fired four missiles into two compounds in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, killing seven people, security officials said. The attack raised the death toll to 25 from drone airstrikes within 24 hours against suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda hideouts. An intelligence official said the drone fired two missiles at each compound Tuesday in the Ghulam Khan village near Miran Shah, the...
03:05 PM, Dec 28, 2010
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03:01 PM, Jan 31, 2010
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02:56 PM, Jan 14, 2010
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