Al Qaida's No 2 in Yemen died of wounds sustained in a US drone attack in 2012 in southern Yemen, the country's official news agency and a security official said on Thursday. Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was wounded in a missile attack in the southern city of Saada on October 28, according to...
08:18 AM, Jan 25, 2013
New Delhi: Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan was offloaded from a US-bound flight at Toronto International airport in Canada on Friday just hours after he criticised the US for drone attacks in Pakistan's restive Waziristan region. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief was reportedly questioned for his fundraising activities and his alleged links to the Taliban. Imran later tweeted about his interrogation and stood by his critical stand on US drones....
07:19 AM, Oct 27, 2012
Islamabad: US drones targeted three militant compounds in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region on Friday killing at least 18 insurgents, just a day after Pakistan summoned a top American diplomat to lodge protest over such attacks calling them a violation of its sovereignty. The CIA-operated spy planes targeted the militant compounds in Shawal region of North Waziristan tribal agency, which has witnessed a series of drone attacks in the...
05:36 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Islamabad: Notwithstanding Taliban's insistence that militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri is dead, senior Pakistani military authorities in South Waziristan tribal region are still reluctant to confirm that he was killed in a US drone strike over a year ago. "We, on our own level, did some investigations but could not find any clue that could prove his death in the drone attack. We knew that he had arrived in Wana a...
10:48 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Islamabad: Seven militants were killed on Sunday when US drones targeted two vehicles in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region, the second such attack in the area in hours. Two CIA-operated drones fired four missiles at two vehicles carrying militants in Shawal area of North Waziristan Agency early on Sunday morning, officials were quoted as saying by TV news channels. Seven militants were killed instantly. Six members of a Taliban...
12:46 PM, Aug 19, 2012
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
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
Pakistani Taliban leader stuck in US missile strike. ...
03:01 PM, Jan 31, 2010
Civilians suffer as America goes after militants in northwest Pakistan. ...
02:56 PM, Jan 14, 2010
Pak Min Rehman Malik said offensive to go on till all Mehsud's men dead. ...
11:34 PM, Aug 07, 2009
He died with his wife on Wednesday in a suspected US drone attack. ...
11:38 AM, Aug 07, 2009
An intelligence official claimed that two militants were also killed in the attack. ...
01:25 PM, Aug 05, 2009
There have been 3 dozen drone strikes over the past year in Pakistan. ...
10:14 PM, Apr 04, 2009
Two missiles fired by suspected US drone hit a village of the Orakzai Agency. ...
12:56 AM, Apr 02, 2009
Missiles demolished house of a local tribesman Botal Khan, a Taliban aide. ...
02:11 AM, Mar 02, 2009
