Escalation in Yemen: Houthis Down Another US MQ-9 Reaper Drone

In a significant development highlighting the ongoing conflict in Yemen, the Houthi rebels have reportedly shot down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone. This marks the sixth drone of this type to be brought down by the Houthis in the region, indicating a sustained campaign against US military assets.

UAE Claims To Have Thwarted Ballistic Missile Attack By Houthi Rebels During Israeli President's Visit

The United Arab Emirates says it has defused and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The UAE Ministry of Defense claimed from its Twitter account that a ballistic missile fired from the Yemeni province of Al-Jawaf on Sunday night was intercepted by its defense system in the air at 00:20 (local time). Local time) destroyed. The UAE has also released a video of the successful missile destruction.

According to the Ministry of Defense, there were no casualties in the Houthi attack and the remnants of the missile fell out of populated areas.

UAE: Houthi Rebels Threaten 'More Attacks' In UAE, Reports Of Casualties Following Saudi Coalition Bombing In Sanaa

Yemen's Houthi rebels have threatened more airstrikes if the United Arab Emirates does not stop its offensive against Yemen.

A spokesman for the Houthi rebels warned ordinary citizens and international companies to stay away from key installations in the UAE, where more attacks could take place in the future.

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One Pakistani and two Indian nationals were killed and six others were injured when three oil tankers exploded in the port area of ​​Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates on Monday.

UAE: Drone Strike Must Be Punished

The UAE Foreign Ministry has condemned the drone strike by Houthi rebels in a statement and said "it will be punished." "The United Arab Emirates has the right to retaliate against this terrorist attack," the statement said, according to Reuters.

One Pakistani and two Indian nationals were killed in explosions in three oil tankers in the port area of ​​the United Arab Emirates on Monday, according to Abu Dhabi police.

According to the Emirati news agency WAM, Abu Dhabi police said after the attack that in addition to the casualties, six people were injured in the fire that broke out after the blast.

Abu Dhabi Drone Attack: At Least Three Dead In An Explosion In Abu Dhabi After A Drone Attack

"Small flying objects, possibly drones, were detected that fell in two areas and would have caused the explosion and fire," the police said.

At least three people died and six others were injured this Monday by an explosion caused by a fire in the industrial zone of Abu Dhabi, while the Emirate Police investigates whether it is an attack carried out with drones.

"The event caused the death of a Pakistani citizen and two Indian citizens, and another 6 suffered minor and moderate injuries," according to the official Emirati news agency WAM, which noted that the Police have managed to control the fire "that broke out this morning in the Mussafah area, near the depots of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), which caused the explosion of three fuel tanks".

Afghanistan: US Army Relieves Soldiers After Drone Attack On Children

At the end of August, a US drone killed ten civilians, seven of them children, in Kabul. The military speaks of a tragic mistake. Those responsible go unpunished.

A US drone attack that killed ten civilians in the Afghan capital Kabul at the end of August has no legal consequences for the soldiers responsible. According to his spokesman, the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin approved a report by the army command on the attack, in which no disciplinary measures are recommended against the soldiers responsible.

What we saw was a breakdown in process, execution and procedures 

spokesman John Kirby told journalists. 

It was not the result of negligence, it was not the result of misconduct, it was not the result of poor leadership 

US Defends Airstrikes That Kill 'Civilians' In Syria

The U.S. military says an airstrike in Syria in 2019 killed dozens of people.

The United States has said it attacked the so-called Islamic State militant group, which killed 80 people. The United States has said it has identified 16 of the dead as militants and four as civilians.

Authorities have not been able to determine the identities of the more than 60 people, but a spokesman told the BBC it was "very possible" that more civilians had been killed in the attack.

According to the New York Times, the attacks were never independently investigated and the newspaper's report accused the US military of covering up the incident.

Baghdad | Iraqi Capital Baghdad Reports Drone Attack On Prime Minister's Residence

Explosions and gunfire broke out in central Baghdad. According to the military, the head of government escaped the attack unharmed.

A drone loaded with explosives attacked the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in the fortified "Green Zone" of Baghdad. The prime minister escaped the attenate attempt unharmed, said the Iraqi military. The emergency services took "the necessary measures," it said in the message.

Iran | US Imposes Sanctions On Iran's Drone Program

The US government wants to stop Iran from delivering combat drones to rebel groups around the world. It blacklisted two companies and two generals.

The US has imposed sanctions on several companies and people in Iran. The US government accuses them of promoting the development of combat drones to attack targets of the Americans and their allies.

As the US Treasury announced on Friday, the sanctions are directed against two generals of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, an elite unit of the Iranian army classified as a terrorist organization in the USA: Brigadier General Saeed Aghajani heads the drone command of the Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier General Abdullah Mehrabi is head of their research organization . You will be frozen any wealth in the US and denied access to the US financial market.

Today Top Stories || US Military Has Killed Al-Qaeda Leaders | Six Palestinian Groups Declared Terrorist

US military has killed al-Qaeda leaders with a drone

The US claims to have killed one of the leaders of the terror network in Syria. According to current knowledge, civilians were not harmed.

The US military claims to have killed one of the leaders of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network in Syria. Abdul Hamid al-Matar was killed in a drone attack in northwest Syria, a spokesman for the US Central Command said on Friday. According to current knowledge, civilians were not harmed in the attack near Suluk.

USA: Al-Qaeda uses Syria as a retreat

The killing of al-Matar will affect al-Qaeda’s ability to "plan and carry out further attacks worldwide," added the army spokesman. The extremist organization continues to "pose a threat to the United States and our allies." Al-Qaeda is using Syria as a retreat to regroup and plan missions abroad.

Today World's Top Stories || UK Fined China's TV Channel CGTN | An End to Drone Strikes | China Introduces 'Virus Passport'

The United Kingdom has fined China's state-run television channel CGTN 400,000 and revoked its license. The Chinese TV channel showed this in a program about British citizen Peter Humphrey in which he confessed his guilt and against this Peter had lodged a complaint against the TV with the British broadcaster Ofcom. The company had imposed a fine of 110,000 euros on the TV channel for violating the country's broadcasting laws.A Shanghai court has sentenced Peter Humphrey to more than two years in prison in a corruption case. The case involved a pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, and a related program featured Peter confessing to his crimes. Peter, on the other hand, says the confession was made while in custody and that is why he was forced to file a complaint against the channel. Earlier last month, China banned BBC World News, a leading British broadcaster, saying it had committed serious violations of Chinese broadcasting rules and regulations. It should be noted that in a report on Uighur Muslims, the BBC had revealed Beijing's tough stance and after that China had decided to ban it.

Iran will use drones to monitor their borders

As reported by the Russian newspaper RT Commander of Iran's Border Police explained that they try to "prevent any act of provocation against the country and criminal activities such as drug trafficking on land and sea frontras from deployment of unmanned manned "in the west and south."  With this objective, the commander announced that it is building the infrastructure necessary for the maintenance and use of unmanned aircraft , Iranian television reported HispanTV in Spanish. The police command and reported the installation of 330 new border control centersto stem the flow of drugs in the province of Sistan and Baluchistan in the southeast of the country. Iran has announced several times that manufactures a dozen drones for various missions. It has also been repeatedly attributed the demolition or attack aircraft such observation of U.S. origin or when he allegedly flew Israeli airspace or territorial waters. This past December, the Naval Force of the IRGC showed footage of a ScanEagle , an unmanned aircraft small observation from the United States , and two weeks after Iranian authorities said they had set up a production line Copies of this apparatus . Iran is a central passage of drugs from Afghanistan that pass through the eastern borders and are destined for Europe, republics of the former Soviet Union and the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf.

The 'drones' U.S. killed 4,700 people, according to a Republican senator

Sen. Lindsey Graham Republican estimated that some 4,700 people have been killed by drone attacks or " drones "in the first reference of a legislator U.S. the number of victims. As Graham said at a conference on Wednesday collects daily Patch Easley South Carolina, attacks with "drones" killed "sometimes innocent, something deplorable, but we are at war and we got rid of some of the most important members of Al Qaeda." The figure provided by Graham, without citing its sources, is the first to bring any U.S. congressman or government official about the operation, which develops classified nature. The calculation is also higher than most critics groups provided by this practice, as Micah Zenko specialist researchers, who in January 3430 amounted deaths in a detailed report from the study center Council on Foreign Relations. According to Graham, the attacks with "drones" are "a necessary tactical weapon", as there are areas on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan which is very difficult to access. Graham, said Thursday that it plans to block the confirmation vote of John Brennan to the CIA director for his response to the attack on consulate in Benghazi (Libya) last September, did not hesitate to praise however the need strikes " drones "that Brennan has promoted as an adviser to President Barack Obama. The senator said, because the country is at war with Al Qaeda , is "nonsense" to require judicial authorization and justified the bombing of a U.S. death linked to Islamic terrorism in Yemen in 2011. According to Graham, Anwar al Awlaki, born in New Mexico, had helped to radicalize Americans and plan attacks. "A drone blew it, and that's good," he said. "There would have wanted such a trial . not fighting crime, this is a war, "he added.

The candidate to head the CIA asserts that 'drones' 'save lives'

At his confirmation hearing in the Senate on Thursday, John Brennan, chosen by Barack Obama to head the CIA, could hardly speak a few minutes before they started shouting at him. "Murder is against the Constitution ... Traitor!" Yelled a protester who had sneaked into the room. After four similar disruptions, the session was suspended and the whole audience was expelled from the courtroom. The tension was clear by the president's most controversial appointment to many of his followers. Brennan, a veteran CIA spy and so far Obama's counterterrorism chief advisor, has overseen since 2009 the bombing plan drones ('drones') , which were strengthened during the Obama Administration. Pressed by a Democratic senator, Brennan complained that there is "a misunderstanding about what is making the U.S. government."According to him, it is not a punishment for terrorists, but the 'drones'are "the last resort" to prevent attacks and used "to save lives". Four years ago, the president did not dare appoint Brennan CIA chief because he wanted to avoid controversy by spy responsible positions during interrogations with torture program after the 11-S.Brennan complains that the Bush Administration was promoted several times for criticizing the Iraq war or oppose the 'waterboarding' almost-drowning method which prisoners were subjected. This Thursday insisted repudiate torture , about which he expressed "his personal objections," but did not try to stop because he did not depend says. He declined to clarify whether the torture helped bring information to locate Osama Bin Laden, as the film tells 'The Darkest Night', and said only that information is classified. Brennan forcefully defended the use of 'drones', he has systematized as counterterrorism chief. Since Obama came to the White House have been at least 310 attacks 'drones' in Pakistan, six times more than in the eight years of Bush. Since January 2009, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a London-based group that has the bombings, estimates that at least 2,600 people have died in these attacks , including more than 400 civilians identified as unrelated to terrorism. In Pakistan have killed 176 children, in Yemen, between 27 and 37, and in Somalia, between one and three.

The 'blacklist' of drones

At the hearing, Brennan said the president has always wanted to ensure that "any action taken fully respect the law." The Administration now claims that the Senate will give more information about how decisions attacks 'drones', which Obama OKs chosen a cast of which is updated almost every week . The blacklist has included a girl of 17 years or Anwar al-Awlaki, a cleric with U.S. citizenship bombed in Yemen in September 2011 with an assistant New Yorker who was not among the most sought. The 'drone' that killed Al-Awlaki left a base in Saudi Arabia whose installation Brennan helped negotiate through his contacts in the days when he worked as head of the CIA mission in Riyadh. The Administration did not publicly confirm the details of their attacks. But Brennan's audience requires some explanation. So, a few hours before the meeting, the NBC published on its website thelegal justification of why the president has the power to order the death of any suspected terrorists , including U.S. citizens, without trial. According to a Justice Department report, "the president has the authority to respond to an imminent threat of Al Qaeda and its associated forces derived from its constitutional responsibility to protect the country," congressional authorization after 11-S and "the existence of an armed conflict with Al Qaeda under international law. " The document states that attacking the U.S. members of the terrorist organization is "an act of national self-defense". The toughest questions came to Brennan Obama Party . Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said the president's favorite: "All Americans deserve to know when your government believes it has the right to kill them." Brennan himself has admitted its policy dilemmas he has directed.During a conference last April, acknowledged that the use of 'drones' "raises profound moral questions" and strength to face "a deeply rooted personal beliefs" and "values ​​as a nation." "If someone in government who work in this area tells you not suffered with this, then you have not spent much time thinking about it ... I know that I have done and will continue to suffer with it as long involved in counterterrorism" he said.

TERRORISM | According reveals 'The Washington Post' United States maintains a secret 'drones' in Saudi Arabia

The CIA has held for the past two years a secret base drone , known as "drones" in Saudi Arabia, as reported by U.S. media. According to sources from said base operations were conducted against terrorist organization linked to Al Qaeda and located in Yemen. A drone was sent from this base in September 2011 to kill Anwar al Awlaki, a radical Islamist cleric born in the United States and known for being one of the leaders of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as cited by the media. The base was established two years ago to intensify the war against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as is known to the branch of the terrorist organization in Yemen. John Brennan , appointed by the Obama administration to head the CIA and White House adviser on counterterrorism, played a key role in negotiations with Saudi Arabia to build such a base, said the newspaper 'The Washington Post'. The newspaper did not reveal the exact location of the base, which could be a subject for counterterrorism operations in the United States develops this troubled region.

No imminent attacks

Indeed, the White House said yesterday that attacks with "drones" against U.S. citizens abroad suspected terrorists are "legal, ethical and sensible" . The U.S. Executive made ​​this statement after government disseminated a memorandum justifying these attacks, even without evidence of an imminent terrorist act . "We carried out these attacks because they are necessary to mitigate actual threats ongoing plots stop, prevent future attacks and save American lives," said White House spokesman, Jay Carney . Carney said that the U.S. used "occasionally" remotely piloted aircraft to "perform targeted attacks against specific al Qaeda terrorists," butdeclined to give details of the criteria that continue to empower them. Meanwhile, a group of 11 senators called on Monday in a letter to Obama to disclose the assumptions under approving drone attacks when it comes to U.S. citizens. That request for information came on the eve of tomorrow will be held in the Senate confirmation hearing of John Brennan, one of the promoters of the strategic use of "drones".

Pakistan l U.S. drone attack, five killed

At least five suspected Islamic militants were killed in the raid of a U.S. aircraft unmanned (drone) in the tribal region of North Waziristan, on the border with Afghanistan, where there are bases of the Taliban and Al Qaida.Him, a source of intelligence. 's attack and 'took place in the Shawal. '' Three missiles hit the house of a local Taliban commander known as Abdur Rehman Mehsud'' stated the source.

Pakistan: drone in the north, 4 dead

At least 4 suspected militants were killed today when an unmanned aircraft (drone) operated by the CIA struck a building in North Waziristan, Pakistani tribal region bordering Afghanistan. '' As a result of this operation - has shown a Pakistani intelligence source - 4 suspected militants were killed.'' The government in Islamabad complaint permanently this type of actions managed by the United States.

Pakistan l drone in South Waziristan, 4 dead

Suspected IAt least militants were killed in an attack launched by a U.S. unmanned aircraft (drone) in the tribal district of South Waziristan, in north-western Pakistan. The intelligence sources have reported to local reporters. The aircraft remotely piloted CIA struck a house and a car near Wana, the main town in the district that borders Afghanistan. Three other people were injured. You do not know the identity 'of the victims.

India successfully tests its first drone

The drone they have called Lascar measures 1.60 meters long and 2.70 wide and is part of a joint project between the Army of Chile, University of Concepción and some private companies that has been running since 2008. According to the project managers, the drone can also be used to fire or natural disasters and rescue operations. Al flight test attended Defence Minister Chile, Rodrigo Hinzpeter , who noted that thedevelopment of this project "realizes that in Chile there is intelligence, capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship of this nature, we sometimes think they are just exclusive property or a monopoly of highly developed countries, "he said  According RT site account , the Government of Colombia confirmed in late October last year working in the manufacture of drones , and already tested. The country expects to have 2015 its first military radar. Its main objectives include monitoring national energy infrastructure and the fight against armed groups. Meanwhile, Venezuela Russian drones being tested to see if they are encouraged to buy them. The South American country is interested in lightweight unmanned vehicles capable of carrying cameras and video. 

Pakistan: Air raids and violence

New air raid carried out in Pakistan U.S. unmanned drones, resulting in the deaths of four people and injuring three, in the region Ntaigkaan Ntatachel in North Waziristan. The attack took place last Saturday and the air raids are frequent goal with areas where there are pockets of rebels. Addition to two separate incidents, two gunmen killed seven Shiite Muslims in two separate Baloutsistan province in southwestern Pakistan, rather than making up far, taking attacks for attacks. Elsewhere in the country, in Bajaur, near the border with Afghanistan, two people died and three were injured last Saturday, after a mortar attack.