Tag: Militant targets
Shaktoi (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Jan 2010
What Happened? 14 January 2010: A U.S. drone strike targeted a house belonging to a local man named Muhammad Yaqoob in the Shaktoi area of Waziristan. This attack took place on an alleged Taliban training camp where at least 18 militants are said to have been killed. There is no other information present about the…
Ismail Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Jan 2010
What Happened? 09 January 2010: A U.S. drone strike targeted a house in the Ismail Khel area of Datta Khel tehsil in North Waziristan. At least two missiles were fired, killing at least 4 people and leaving 5 injured. An Al-Qaeda militant named Mansur Al Shami was killed, whose death was confirmed by his brother…
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),…