List of drone strikes in Yemen
| Drone strikes in Yemen | |||||||
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| Part of the War on Terror and the Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) |
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Other militant groups | |||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 0 | 891-1,124 militants killedor 470-744 militants killed |
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| 65-105 civilians killed | |||||||
Ongoing
After the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, NATO tried to attack the Islamist militant presence in Yemen using drone warfare.
On November 5, 2002, Al-Qaeda operatives in a car traveling through Yemen were killed in a targeted killing by a missile launched from a CIA-controlled Predator drone.
In May 2010 an errant US drone attack targeting al Qaeda terrorists in Wadi Abida, Yemen, killed five people, among them Jaber al-Shabwani, deputy governor of Ma'rib Governorate who was mediating between the government and the militants. The killing so angered Shabwani's tribesmen that in the subsequent weeks they fought heavily with government security forces, twice attacking a major oil pipeline in Maarib.
On May 5, 2011, a missile fired from a U.S. drone killed Abdullah and Mosaad Mubarak, brothers who may have been militants. The missile was fired on their car and both died instantly. The strike was aimed at killing Anwar al-Awlaki, but al-Awlaki survived.
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