Scepticism over casualty claims as new data suggests some UK drones may have...
New data about UK military operations in Iraq and Syria has been released to Drone Wars UK and Vice News over the past few days following separate Freedom of Information (FoI) requests. Vice News...
View ArticleReviewing the current debate on drones
Alongside intense international law arguments, a wider debate on the impact of the growing use of armed drones, within particular current conflicts as well as on long-term global peace and security,...
View ArticleFoI reveals only 5% of British air strikes in Iraq and Syria are pre-planned
A Freedom of Information request by Drone Wars UK has revealed that only 5% of British air strikes in Iraq and Syria are pre-planned. According to the FoI reponse from the Ministry of Defence out of...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Humanitarian Impact of Drones’
The Humanitarian Impact of Drones, edited by Ray Acheson, Matthew Bolton, Elizabeth Minor, and Allison Pytlak, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), 2017 The Humanitarian Impact...
View Article“Thinking war is bloodless is a mistake.” Talking drones and remote war with...
Air Marshall Greg Bagwell is a recently retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Deputy Commander Operations at RAF Air Command. While being a vocal supporter of the use of armed drones,...
View ArticleUK drone strike kills civilian in Syria admits MoD
For the first time, the Ministry of Defence has admitted a civilian death in its air campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The strike, from an RAF Reaper drone, occurred on 26 March according to a...
View Article‘Precise’ Strikes: Fractured Bodies, Fractured Lives – An update on Israel’s...
Five years ago, Drone Wars published a ground breaking report examining Israel’s production, use and proliferation of military drones. Today we are pleased to publish ‘Precise Strikes: Fractured...
View ArticleA bloody month in the drone wars: 7 separate drone strikes kill dozens of...
November 2019 saw seven civilian casualties incidents from drone strikes in four different war-zones illustrating the growing spread of drone warfare. The seven strikes between them are thought to have...
View ArticleDeath TV: Drone warfare in contemporary popular culture
For those of us who have no direct experience of drone warfare, popular culture is one of the major ways that we come to understand what is at stake in UAV operations. Movies, novels, TV and other...
View ArticleNew report examines civilian deaths in French drone-instigated air strike in...
Stoke White Investigations has examined the reported killing of civilians in a French air strike on a wedding party in Mail in January 2021. The following is adapted from the report’s Executive...
View ArticleUK planning for strikes against ISIS in Afghanistan says head of Royal Air Force
Within days of withdrawing the last British troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of warfare, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is understood to be undertaking planning in order that the UK can launch...
View ArticleLong read: Six strikes that show the reality of drone warfare today
Weddings. Hospitals. Refugee camps. Aid workers. All have become the target of lethal strikes this year due to the spreading use of drones by a growing number of states. Here we detail six particular...
View ArticleA deadly legacy: 20 years of drone targeted killing
On the 3rd November 2002, a US Predator drone targeted and killed Qa’id Salim Sinan al-Harithi, a Yemeni member of al-Qaeda who the CIA believed responsible for the attack on the USS Cole in which 17...
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