Tag: Militant targets
Machis (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Oct 2008
What Happened? 11 October 2008: A U.S. drone missile struck a house in the Machis area of North Waziristan. The attack is reported to have killed 4 people, all of them non-locals and militants. This casualty count is corroborated by local media report from Dawn and a secret document issued by the FATA Secretariat in…
Shabak (Kurram Agency) Drone Attack – Mar 2015
Date: 18/03/2015 Location: Kurram Agency, FATA, Pakistan Perpetrators: United States Victims: 3 killed What Happened? 18 March 2015: A US drone missile struck a militant position in the Shabak area of the Kurram Agency (Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas). Pakistani intelligence confirmed the dead to include Khawrey Mehsud, a commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),…