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WANA: At least five people were killed in a drone strike in South Waziristan Agency Monday, Geo News reported. According to sources, the drone fired two missiles at a car in the Nargasai area of the agency. The car was completely destroyed while the drones were seen flying over the area after the strike causing hindrance to rescue efforts.

A U.S. drone was shot down while flying over a nuclear facility in Iran, according to reports in the Iranian media. Iran's Fars news agency reported that lawmaker Ali Aqazadeh Dafsari, a member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, had confirmed the unmanned spy plane was flying near the Fordo nuclear enrichment plant in Qom province when it was brought down by Revolutionary Guard soldiers. It did not say when the alleged incident happened. Dafsari told Fars that the drone was trying to gather information about the nuclear facility for the CIA. Fars also said Iranian military...

MIRANSHAH: A US drone strike late on Tuesday killed at least four terrorists in the Tribal Areas on the border with Afghanistan, local security officials said. The drone fired two missiles at a guesthouse in Mir Ali, about 25 kilometres east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency, the officials said. “The guesthouse was completely destroyed. At least four terrorists have been killed in this US drone attack,” said a security official in Mir Ali. “Five other terrorists were injured.” Taliban and al Qaeda-linked terrorists have carved out strongholds in the tribal belt where they plot attacks on...

Pakistani terrorist helped carry out deadly attacks worldwideIt's not easy being the chief of one of the U.S. Department of Defense's largest contractors. At the trial of accused terrorist David Coleman Headley, he revealed that he plotted with al-Qaida and local Pakistani terrorists to assassinate the head of Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT). I. A Troubled PastDavid Headley grew up as Daood Sayed Gilani. The son of a U.S. government radio broadcaster and diplomat at the U.S. Pakistani embassy in Washington D.C., Mr. Gilani was immersed in American culture. But when his parent's marriage fractured in 1960s Mr. Gilani was dragged...

WANA: Missile strikes from two US drones killed at least 21 suspected militants in Pakistan’s South Waziristan on Monday, Pakistani officials said, part of an intensified US assault in the tribal belt this month. In the first strike, a missile hit a moving vehicle in Ghalmandi Panga village on the Afghan border, killing eight militants. A few hours later, another drone fired three missiles into a militant training centre in Mantoi town, about 30 km north of South Waziristan’s main town of Wana. “It was a big compound which was used as training centre. Militants have cordoned off the area...

<p>Japan's Defence Ministry reports the sighting of a previously unseem drone launched by the Chinese Navy.</p> <p>The Chinese Navy's annual sortie through the disputed waters between the Japanese islands Okinawa and Miyakojima held a surprise for foreign observers. Japanese forces tailing the 11-strong Chinese fleet spotted a previously unknown Chinese weapon system: a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, apparently launched from the deck of a Chinese warship.</p>

Robot, drone fail on Japan nuke-plant missions By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press – 5 hours ago TOKYO (AP) — Two high-tech machines intended to help workers at Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear plant malfunctioned Friday, including a long-awaited Japanese robot making its first attempt to take important measurements in areas too dangerous for humans. The other machine that failed was a drone helicopter that made an emergency landing on a reactor roof at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. /snip The machine got stuck at a staircase landing and failed to go downstairs, TEPCO spokesman Junichi Matsumoto said. A cable that was...

PARACHINAR: Pakistani officials say a second suspected US missile attack has struck a house in northwest Pakistan but casualties are not yet known. Local government official Noor Alam says Monday’s attack on the house in the Kurram tribal area occurred minutes after missiles hit a nearby vehicle and killed seven people, five of whom were suspected militants. Drone attacks are very rare in Kurram, an area where many Taliban militants and their allies have fled Pakistani army operations. Two Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed the attacks in Kurram. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk...

MIRAMSHAH: Three US drone attacks killed 18 suspected militants in South and North Waziristan on Wednesday. Four missiles hit a vehicle carrying suspected militants from Razmak road to Tappi area, some 10km east of Miramshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan Agency. All eight people on board the vehicle were killed. The vehicles was destroyed The mutilated bodies were behind recognition. AP adds: Earlier, missiles targeted a vehicle and a compound near Wana, the main town in South Waziristan Agency, killing 10 people. The victims were believed to be allied with Maulvi Nazir, a prominent militant commander in the area, according...

MIRAMSHAH: US missiles struck an insurgent training camp in Pakistan’s tribal district of North Waziristan on Wednesday, killing 16 militants close to the Afghan border, local security officials said. The strike took place at the village of Zoynarai in the Shawal area close to the border at around 12.00pm (0700 GMT), the Pakistani officials said. “In North Waziristan US drones fired five missiles at a militant training camp, killing 16 militants,” a senior security official told AFP. Another security official confirmed the attack and death toll. Wednesday’s strike came two days after US missiles killed 18 militants in neighbouring South...

PESHAWAR: US missiles killed 18 militants in Pakistan’s tribal district of South Waziristan on Monday, destroying compounds and a vehicle in the deadliest drone strikes for months, officials said. Three strikes were reported just days after Pakistani officials said they believed senior al Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri had died in a similar attack late Friday, also in South Waziristan which borders Afghanistan. Washington has called Pakistan’s semi-autonomous northwest tribal region the most dangerous place on Earth and the global headquarters of al Qaeda. The first strike killed seven militants in the early hours in Shalam Raghzai, 10 kilometres northwest of...

Peshawar, June 4, 2011, Harkat Ul Jihad Islami leader and Amir Ilyas Kashmiri has killed in drone attack last night. We will not compromise at our leader death and US will face new attack very soon, said a statement issued from the spokesman of Brigade 313. In Urdu language written statement issued from the Abu Hanzla Kashir spokesman of Harkat Ul Jihad Islami, brigade 313. Abu Hanzla Confirmed the death of Ilyas Kashmiri and his friends said that he has targeted in US drone attack last night on 3 June 2011. Written statement issued on 4 June 2011 through statement...

PESHAWAR: According to a BBCUrdu report, Ilyas Kashmiri, a Pakistani terrorist leader with ties to al Qaeda, was among those killed in the latest drone strikes in South Waziristan. The report quoted locals as saying that Kashmiri was killed in the strike that killed at least nine militants. Kashmiri was the chief of the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HJI), an organisation affiliated with al Qaeda. He is widely believed to have masterminded the attack on the PNS Mehran naval base in Karachi. A government official in Peshawar told BBCUrdu that although he had been receiving information regarding the death of Kashmiri...

MIRAMSHAH: A US missile strike targeting a militant compound killed five rebels in Pakistan’s tribal badlands near the Afghan border on Friday, security officials said. The strike took place in Ghwakhwa area, 10 kilometres (six miles) west of Wana, the main town of South Waziristan tribal region, where the military launched an operation two years ago. “A US drone fired three missiles on a militant compound, killing five rebels,” a senior security official in the area told AFP. Another security official confirmed the strike and casualties but said the “identities of those killed in the attack were not immediately known”....

MIRAMSHAH: A US drone strike on Monday destroyed a vehicle in Pakistan’s Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked stronghold of North Waziristan on the Afghan border, killing seven militants, officials said. The attack took place on the outskirts of Mir Ali, some 30 kilometres east of Miramshah, the main town of the district where US officials want Pakistan to launch an offensive against networks fighting in Afghanistan. “A US drone fired two missiles which hit a vehicle. At least seven militants have been killed,” one security official in Peshawar told AFP. Another intelligence official in Miranshah said two drones fired four missiles, hitting...

MIRANSHAH: A US drone strike destroyed a vehicle in Pakistan’s Taliban-infested North Waziristan district on the Afghan border, killing six suspected militants on Friday, local officials said. The two missiles struck the Tappi area, 10 kilometres (six miles) east of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, where US officials want Pakistan to launch an offensive against networks fighting in neighbouring Afghanistan. “A US drone targeting a militants’ vehicle fired two missiles killing four militants,” a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Another local security official confirmed the strike and casualties, saying the identity of those killed in...

MIRANSHAH: Two US drone strikes targeting a compound and a vehicle in North Waziristan Agency killed at least twelve terrorists and wounded four others on Monday, officials said. Both the attacks took place in Mir Ali Town, some 40 kilometres east of Miranshah, a stronghold of Taliban and al Qaeda-linked terrorists. Two US drones fired two missiles into a terrorist compound, and minutes later another drone fired two missiles at a vehicle nearby, officials said. “In the first strike, two missiles destroyed the compound and killed six terrorists. The second attack killed those travelling in a car,” an official told...

MIRANSHAH: A US drone fired two missiles into a vehicle in Pakistan’s tribal district of North Waziristan on Friday, killing at least four militants, local security officials said. The attack took place in Kharkamar area, 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Miranshah, a stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants. “A US drone fired two missiles targeting a militant vehicle, killing at least four militants,” a senior security official told AFP. It was the fourth such attack reported in Pakistan’s tribal badlands on the Afghan border, which Washington has dubbed the global headquarters of al-Qaeda, since US commandos killed Osama...

MIRANSHAH: A US drone fired two missiles into a vehicle in Pakistan’s tribal district of North Waziristan on Thursday, killing at least seven suspected militants, local security officials said. It was the third such attack reported in Pakistan’s tribal badlands on the Afghan border, which Washington has dubbed the global headquarters of al Qaeda, since US commandos killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani city near Islamabad. “A US drone fired two missiles on a militants’ vehicle in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan,” one Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. “Seven militants were killed,” the...

PESHAWAR: A US drone strike targeting a vehicle killed four militants in Pakistan’s tribal belt on Tuesday, local officials said, the second such operation since the killing of Osama bin Laden. A security official said the drones fired two missiles into South Waziristan. Another official said the missiles fell near Angoor Adda village. “Two missiles were fired on a vehicle at about 4:15 pm (1115 GMT) and four militants were killed,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The identity of the militants was not immediately known. On Monday, hundreds of Taliban rallied in Wana, the main town of...