Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) argued that former President Barack Obama is a “more polished” version of President Donald Trump, noting both their administrations have employed several of the same policies on border security and foreign policy.
U.S. officials said on Friday they believe a U.S. airstrike in Yemen killed Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali al-Badawi, the al-Qaeda operative who masterminded the bombing of the USS Cole in October 2000.
The U.S. military is reportedly deploying more armed MQ-9 Reaper drones to Niger at the request of the local government, even as the U.S. special forces troop presence is scaled back.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has ordered the arrest of two opposition lawmakers for the drone attack on him that took place last Saturday.
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab said on Monday that the masterminds of Saturday’s drone assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro have been identified and two drone pilots are under arrest.
DAMASCUS – Israel launched air strikes against three military posts in Syria Wednesday, its army said, after intercepting what it described as the incursion of an unarmed drone into its territory.
Israeli drones carried out two airstrikes on targets in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian media reported, including one that destroyed a motorbike that the military said was used by a cell sending incendiary balloons into southern Israel.
Moscow (Russia) (AFP) – Russia will reportedly deploy jamming devices used in Syria and the war in Ukraine to defend World Cup stadiums against a drone attack.
TEL AVIV – The explosives-laden Iranian drone that infiltrated Israeli airspace in February was a possible retaliation for the Mossad’s theft of Iran’s nuclear weapons archive, a senior Israeli intelligence official told Ynet, adding that the few Iranians who were privy to the existence of the trove attempted to recapture it immediately from Israeli operatives.
U.S. officials confirmed on Tuesday that an American MQ-9 Reaper drone destroyed a Russian-made T-72 battle tank in Syria on Sunday, after U.S. special operations troops and their Syrian allies came under attack by forces supporting dictator Bashar Assad.
The United States conducted its first airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Somalia on Friday. Previous operations in Somalia have been directed against the al-Shabaab terrorist group, which is affiliated with the Islamic State’s progenitors and rivals, al-Qaeda.
A month after an ambush by militants aligned with the Islamic State killed four American special forces operators and at least four Nigerien troops, Niger has asked the United States to deploy armed drones to hunt down jihadis along the border with Mali.
The United States is considering a campaign of airstrikes, or to be more precise drone strikes, against Islamic State militants in the Philippines. Terrorist vassals of ISIS have been fighting an insurgency on the southern island of Mindanao since May, despite assurances from the Philippine government that they would be swiftly defeated.
An American drone aircraft supported a Somali special forces attack on a command post of the al-Shabaab terrorist organization on Sunday. According to military estimates, the operation wiped out the command post and killed eight al-Shabaab militants.
Let us take a look back at five times former President Barack Obama leaked classified information, without a peep of protest from the media that are currently melting down over President Donald Trump’s discussions with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers say a U.K. man killed by a Royal Air Force drone strike in Syria was an Islamic State group attack planner who posed a “very serious threat” to Britain.
Photos released by the Islamic State group purport to show that its’ jihadists are again using small unmanned drones to attack targets in the area of Mosul where IS is locked in battle with the Iraqi army.
One person was killed in a drone strike in the northern Sinai in Egypt, Channel 2 reported Monday evening, citing Al Jazeera.
Reuters reports that at least four suspected al-Qaeda militants were killed in a Tuesday night drone strike against a vehicle in Yemen.
President Obama delivered his last major speech on national security at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida on Tuesday, boasting that “no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack” in the U.S.
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday they had developed a “suicide drone” capable of delivering explosives to blow up targets at sea and on land.
A drone that crossed into northern Israel last month belonged to Russia — not Hezbollah, as was initially suspected — the Haaretz newspaper reported Sunday.
The Obama administration has killed from 64 to 116 civilians, as well as between 2,372 and 2,581 combatants in drone and other lethal airstrikes targeting terrorists outside principal war zones like Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, according to a much-anticipated report from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), released Friday.
Islamic State (IS) terrorists have claimed they have a mole working inside the heart of British military, days after releasing a ‘hit list’ of drone pilots to be murdered. The terrorists say the mole, allegedly working inside the British Ministry of
“Democracy Now!” Host and Executive Producer Amy Goodman argued that the US should stop drone strikes and close Guantanamo to “challenge ISIS” on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time.” During a discussion of U2 lead singer Bono’s suggestion to use
President Barack Obama continued his defense of his drone program, citing a preference for the super hero Iron Man to defeat terrorists rather than the still evolving drone technology.
Eye in the Sky is a challenging film about a highly contentious subject: the ethics and morality of targeted drone warfare.
France and Britain have agreed to invest 2 billion euros in a project to build a next-generation multi-role drone with a view to making it operational after 2030, the two countries said in a statement on Thursday. “This program …
From Reuters comes another twist in the Hillary Clinton email scandal, as intelligence agencies point out that some of her emails contained text that very closely matched America’s most highly-classified documents:
Oscar-winner Helen Mirren and Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul star in this spring’s drone warfare thriller “Eye in the Sky.”
The English-speaking masked terrorist who has appeared in many ISIS murder videos, known as “Jihadi John” but long ago identified as 27-year-old British expatriate Mohammed Emwazi, has been targeted by a drone strike near the Islamic State’s capital of Raqqa, Syria.
(Reuters) – The United States on Thursday carried out an air strike in Syria targeting the Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John,” who participated in gruesome videos showing the killings of American and British hostages, officials said. One U.S.
More details are emerging about Junaid Hussain, the twenty-something British expatriate who served as a key player in the Islamic State’s online army until a U.S. drone strike took him out this week. According to an article at the Wall Street Journal, Hussain was involved in most of ISIS’s hacking and social media exploits.
CNN reports that U.S. military officials believe they have racked up another major ISIS leadership kill with a drone strike in Syria, presumably launched from the Incirlik airbase in Turkey. The top deputy of the Islamic State’s “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was taken out last week. The new target is British-born ISIS recruiter and hacker Junaid Hussain, who was linked to the gunmen who attacked the Mohammed Art Exhibit in Garland, Texas.
On Friday, after government investigators reported that Hillary Clinton actually did send classified security information over her private email server despite her adamant claims that she never did, the Associated Press rushed out a “report” that excuses Clinton for violating federal rules and for lying about doing it.
Needless to say, no one as irresponsible, arrogant, and untrustworthy as Hillary Clinton has proven herself to be should be permitted anywhere near classified information ever again, especially given the patently false story her campaign drones are still pushing that she did all this for the mere “convenience” of not carrying two portable email devices.
A month after Turkey agreed to allow U.S. and allied forces to use its airfields for operations in Syria, the first armed drone strike has been conducted by the United States.
Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) publicly executed at least two men accused of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia and the United States and then hung their bodies from a bridge, reports The Long War Journal.
Al-Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate, considered the jihadist group’s most potent and dangerous branch, has confirmed that its chief was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week, according to several news reports.
Nasr Ibn Ali al-Ansi, a top-level commander in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and former confidant of Osama bin Laden, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike, according to a message released by the terror entity.
