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US drone strike kills leader of Pakistan’s Jamaat-ul-Ahrar militants — spokesman

Pakistan - Muslimchronicle

The leader of Pakistani militant group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, who planned some of the deadliest suicide bombings in Pakistan in the last year, died on Thursday after being wounded in a US drone strike in Afghanistan, a spokesman said. “Our leader, Omar Khalid Khorasani, was wounded in one of the recent drone strikes in Afghanistan. He was wounded badly, and today heRead more

Qaeda leader killed in raid on Idlib in Syria

Damascus - Arab Today

A Qaeda leader was killed in an air raid launched by a US drone that targeted his car in Idlib in northern Syria, Al Arabiya Al Hadath news channel said on Monday. Abdullah Mohamed Ragab Abdel Rahman was the former deputy of Qaeda leader Ayman el Zawahri. Source: MENARead more

US drone attack ‘kills al Qaeda fighters’ in Yemen

Aden - Arab Today

A US drone attack in southern Yemen killed two suspected al Qaeda members, security sources said Monday. The drone on Sunday night targeted a car driving in Habban, killing “two al Qaeda fighters and wounding the driver,” Al Arabiya news said quoting one of the sources. The strike comes after an American drone attack on Saturday killed two other presumedRead more

Pakistan condemns US drone strike against Taliban without prior arrangement

Islamabad - Arab Today

Pakistan's government condemned the US drone strike and targeted Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour without a prior arrangement with the Pakistani authorities, considering it was a violation of sovereignty. The drone attack was a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty, an issue which has been raised with the United States in the past as well, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said in aRead more

Daesh chief expert on missiles killed in northern Iraq

Washington - MENA

Daesh chief expert on missiles and mortars has been killed in an air raid conducted by a US drone, international coalition spokesman US army colonel Steve Warren was quoted by US-funded Radio Sawa as saying on Sunday. Abdulaziz Jassim Mohamed Hassan, also known as Jassim Khadija, was responsible for shelling Makhmur military base in Nineveh province last month, he added.Read more

Pentagon: US Drone Strike Kills Key Al-Shabab Leader in Somalia

Washington - QNA

A US drone strike in Somalia has targeted a key leader of the Al-Shabab militant group, the Pentagon announced last night. Several U.S. officials said he and two others were killed. Hassan Ali Dhoore was targeted in the airstrike Thursday, but the U.S. military was still assessing the results, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement Dhoore was involvedRead more