The aircraft will be used by the military after all tests are completed.The Eren drone is designed to destroy bombs and other munitions while hovering up to 3,000 meters (9,850ft) above the ground, Anadolu news agency reported. The aircraft can “neutralize explosive devices without involving demining personnel” on the ground, …
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The apparent attempted assassination of the Iraqi prime minister was “a new sedition that must be traced back to foreign think tanks,” according to Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran. In the past, foreign instigators “have brought nothing but insecurity, discord & instability to …
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The official’s residence came under fire on Sunday morning local time. Iraq’s Security Media Cell claimed the attack was a “failed assassination attempt against the Prime Minister” which involved a “booby-trapped drone”. The Security Media Cell added that al-Kadhimi was “in good health” and that security forces were taking “necessary …
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It was a communications breakdown rather than any sort of malice or ineptitude, Air Force Lt. Gen. Sami Said suggested in his review, the contents of which were relayed to Associated Press by a senior defense official. He clarified that the breakdown occurred in the process of identifying and confirming …
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“We have no indications of civilian casualties as a result of the strike, which was conducted using an MQ-9 aircraft,” CENTCOM spokesman Major John Rigsbee said in a statement on Friday evening. Though the Rigsbee put the strike in “northwest” Syria, CENTCOM named Suluk – a town in the north, …
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The US Central Command announced on Thursday that it conducted a “kinetic counterterrorism strike” targeting Abu-Ahmad, on a stretch of road in the Syrian desert. “Initial indications are that we struck the individual we were aiming for, and there are no indications of civilian casualties as a result of the …
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An August 27 drone strike in the eastern province of Nangarhar killed a “high profile… lethal aid facilitator” for the Islamic State’s ‘Khorasan’ cell named Kabir Aidi, CENTCOM spokesman John Rigsbee told the Military Times on Thursday, noting the man also went by the alias “Mustafa.” “Post-strike reflections indicate that …
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Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has been placed in charge of the investigation, which will be conducted by Air Force Inspector General Lt.Gen. Sami Said, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Monday. The probe comes after Austin ordered a military officer (three stars or higher) to conduct a review of …
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Emal Akhmadi lost 10 family members, including his two-year-old daughter Malika and brother Zemari, on August 29, when a US Reaper drone destroyed a car in a busy neighborhood not far from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. The Pentagon initially claimed the airstrike had killed a terrorist – only to …
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