Drones / drone warfare

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U.S. drone on the tarmac in Afghanistan (photo: picture-alliance/ZUMA Press/Tsgt. Robert Cloys)

War crimes on the Hindu Kush?

Death by drone – the United States' vicious Afghan legacy

The United States carried out more drone attacks on Afghanistan in 2019 than in any other year since Pentagon records began in 2006. The victims of this questionable military tactic, portrayed as precision strikes to kill alleged militants, are frequently innocent civilians, yet no one seems to care. Emran Feroz reportsMore

Interview with journalist Chris Woods on drone warfare: "It's not risk-free war, it's displaced war"Military force and drone warfare: Post-truth victims Drone war in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Living in the shadow of the "angels of death"

A pall of smoke hangs above the Aramco oil refinery in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia (photo: Reuters/Planet Labs)

Houthi attacks on Saudi oil facilities

Hitting Saudi Arabia where it hurts

After the drone attacks on two oil plants in Saudi Arabia, U.S. President Trump warned that the USA was ready with a "loaded" weapon to react to the attacks. But against whom is his warning directed? By Karim El-GawharyMore

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Pro-Trump demonstrators in favour of the immigration ban (photo: Reuters/Ringo Chiu)

US Middle East foreign policy

West versus the rest

Trump′s policy attempts to apply a tourniquet to the perceived ′Muslim problem′ that has been manufactured and now exacerbated by the West′s wayward dealings in the Middle East. An analysis by Mishana HosseiniounMore

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US MQ-1 drone in Yemen (photo: picture-alliance/dpa)

Military force and drone warfare

Post-truth victims

During the Obama era, the world witnessed what could be referred to as the 'dronification' of killing. Gone are combatant status, war goals and the option of negotiation. No prisoners are taken; people are just killed and anyone who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time just gets killed along with them. By Charlotte WiedemannMore

Interview with journalist Chris Woods on drone warfare: "It's not risk-free war, it's displaced war" Drone war in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Living in the shadow of the "angels of death"Interview with the Pakistani lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar: Fighting the injustice of the US drone programme Noam Chomsky in interview: Obama's sangfroid

The American linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky (photo: dpa)

Noam Chomsky in interview

Obama's sangfroid

Former MIT professor and philosopher Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as one of the world's leading intellectuals. Undoubtedly, Chomsky's word has weight. Emran Feroz interviewed him on Barack Obama's political legacy in the Middle East, the deal with Iran and the refugee crisisMore

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Taliban fighters east of Kabul (photo: picture-alliance/AP/R. Gul)

The Taliban′s spring offensive

Over one million displaced Afghans

The most recent suicide attack on the outskirts of Kabul shows once again that in Afghanistan, battles are not only being fought between the army and the rebels. Anyone can find themselves targeted and civilians are the ones suffering the most. By Matthias LauerMore

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Atef Abu Saif (photo: picture-alliance/AP Photo/N. Nasser)

Book review: "The Drone Eats with Me" by Atef Abu Saif

A war without distinct edges

Throughout history, countless literary accounts of war and the suffering it brings have been written. Gazan author Atef Abu Saif has added something new to this body of literature, namely an account of civilian life during the Gaza conflict in 2014 that describes the war and the impact of drone warfare from the viewpoint of a non-combatant. By Marcia Lynx QualeyMore

Interview with journalist Chris Woods on drone warfare: "It's not risk-free war, it's displaced war" Media portrayals and geopolitics in the Near and Middle East: Who shapes our image of the world?Drone war in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Living in the shadow of the "angels of death"Interview with the Pakistani lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar: Fighting the injustice of the US drone programme

Activists from Reporters without Borders demonstrating on the Champs Elysee in Paris in July 2012 against the oppression and torture of journalists in Iran (photo: EPA/IAN LANGSDON)

Media portrayals and geopolitics in the Near and Middle East

Who shapes our image of the world?

In this commentary, Charlotte Wiedemann considers how press freedom and the media are tethered to Western geopoliticsMore

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An unmanned US Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moonlit night, 31 January 2010 (photo: picture-alliance/AP Photo/K. Wigglesworth)

Interview with journalist Chris Woods on drone warfare

"It's not risk-free war, it's displaced war"

For more than a decade now, the US has been using drones in warfare. During this time, thousands of people, especially civilians, have been killed by the unmanned machines. In this interview, Chris Woods, one of the leading investigative journalists on drone warfare, explains to Emran Feroz why use of drones is on the rise and what the consequences areMore

Drone war in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Living in the shadow of the "angels of death"Interview with the Pakistani Lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar: Fighting the injustice of the US drone programme The emergence of Islamic State in Pakistan: "They don't negotiate, they don't make partners"

Protests against US drones in Pakistan (photo: picture-alliance/AP)

Drone war in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Living in the shadow of the "angels of death"

While the world is spellbound by the atrocities perpetrated by the organisation "Islamic State" in Iraq and Syria, the killing in another region of the world goes on unremarked. The daily lives of people in Afghanistan and Pakistan are affected less by the murders committed by bearded extremists than by unmanned killing machines. By Emran FerozMore

Interview with the Pakistani Lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar: Fighting the Injustice of the US Drone Programme Portrait of Pakistani politician Imran Khan: Flirting with the Taliban Interview with Ahmed Rashid: In a Taliban Stranglehold

Interview with the Pakistani Lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar

Fighting the Injustice of the US Drone Programme

Pakistani lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar defends victims of American drone strikes in the Waziristan region of Pakistan, not hesitating to press charges against employees of the CIA. Marcus Michaelsen spoke with himMore

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