Press TV | November 08, 2015 At least three people have lost their lives in a US drone strike in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, a local official says. Nangarhar Provincial police spokesman, Hazrat Hussain Mashraqiwal, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the incident happened in Nangarhar’s Ghani Khel district on Saturday night. The US drone attack killed three militants,
From January 2012 to February 2013, a campaign dubbed Operation Haymaker was carried out in the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan. According to “The Drone Papers,” during a five-month period almost 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. This campaign paralleled an increase in drone attacks and civilian
Press TV / November 04, 2015 An unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the US military has reportedly crashed in a remote mountainous area of Afghanistan’s Kabul Province. A senior official from Afghan Interior Ministry told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the drone went down in mountains south of the capital, Kabul, on Wednesday evening.