VOA News / February 6, 2016 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD – Authorities in Afghanistan said Saturday national security forces and U.S. drone strikes have jointly killed at least 28 Islamic State (IS) fighters in a restive eastern region bordering Pakistan. The overnight attacks happened in Achin and Batikot districts of the province of Nangarhar, said local officials.
Common Dreams: U.S. airstrikes carried out in northeastern Afghanistan between January 2012 and February 2013 (as part of Operation Haymaker), for example, killed more than 200 people, only 35 of whom were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were
The Guardian (UK): Faheem Qureshi was 14 when a drone attack on his home left him with horrific injuries, several family members dead and his dreams for the future in tatters. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV / January 24, 2016 At least 16 people have lost their lives when US-led foreign forces carried out separate drone strikes in Afghanistan’s embattled eastern province of Nangarhar. Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for the provincial governor, said two aerial assaults struck Abdulkhel and Bandar areas of Achin district in the province, which is located 120 kilometers (74
Common Dreams: Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV / January 20, 2016 At least three people have lost their lives in a US assassination drone strike in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar. Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for the provincial governor, said the aerial assault targeted a vehicle as it was traveling in the Achin district of the province, which is located 120 kilometers
Press TV / January 16, 2016 Afghan authorities say at least eleven people have lost their lives in a new US assassination drone strike in Afghanistan’s troubled eastern province of Nangarhar. Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the aerial attack took place Friday in the Achin district of the province, which is
VOA News / January 15, 2016 Officials in Afghanistan say they could not confirm the death of a top commander of the Islamic State group in Afghanistan. On Thursday, the Afghan officials had said a U.S. drone strike killed Islamic State’s top commander in the area along with at least 11 other insurgents. But Achin
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 14, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Officials in eastern Afghanistan say a U.S. drone strike Thursday killed Islamic State’s top commander in the area, which the militants call Khorasan, along with at least 11 other insurgents. The missile attack by the unmanned aircraft occurred in Achin, a volatile district in a remote part of
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 8, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A suspected US drone strike Friday killed at least 17 Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan shortly after the extremist group beheaded seven people in the same area, said officials and residents. The violence occurred in the remote Achin district of Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan. The volatile