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Seven alleged militants are killed in South Waziristan region of Pakistan in the first US drone attacks since the arrest of American Raymond Davis in January.
US drones in Pakistan are failing to kill many militant leaders, according to analyst Peter Bergen who tells Channel 4 News only two per cent of deaths are senior Taliban or al-Qaeda figures.
A UN senior official tells Channel 4 News if CIA personnel are operating drone strikes in Pakistan, they could be prosecuted for murder and war crimes if humanitarian laws are violated.
The number of drone strikes in Pakistan, believed to be led by the CIA, has doubled under the Obama administration in 2010 – leading to hundreds of deaths. Channel 4 News maps a secret war.
Twelve men have been arrested in a major anti-terrorism operation in Cardiff, Stoke-on-Trent and London. Midlands Correspondent Darshna Soni says the arrests in Stoke were “low-key”.
What is behind the surge in CIA drone strikes in Pakistan over the last two years? Channel 4 News asked a panel US defence analysts and commentators for their views.
The CIA pulls its top spy out of Pakistan after an unprecedented legal action against him and threats to his life.
Reports that two white British al-Qaeda members have been killed in a missile strike are being investigated, as a security source tells Channel 4 News he is “not surprised Britons are in the area”.
The deaths of two British al-Qaeda members in a drone attack in Pakistan have focused attention on US deployment of unmanned airplanes in north Waziristan.
Channel 4 News scooped two prizes at the Foreign Press Association awards: for Nick Martin’s investigation into Mexico’s missing children and Lindsey Hilsum’s report on rare earth minerals in China.
Jon Snow
As school boys we were excited to learn that Western spies could now read number plates in Moscow’s Red Square – that was well over three decades ago. How come then, as the freed kidnap victims Paul and Rachel Chandler return home, a bunch of crude Somali pirates are able to run rings around the most sophisticated navies the world has ever known?
As the UK and France agree to share military capabilities including aircraft carriers, a defence expert tells Channel 4 News he is surprised at the “sexy” top-level deal.
In the biggest official files leak in history nearly 400,000 Iraq war logs reveal the massive scale of civilian deaths and new torture allegations following an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches.
The Taliban pledges to attack more Nato fuel tankers after gunmen burn 13 vehicles and kill three people taking supplies to coalition troops in Afghanistan.
Britain’s Security Service has carried out a review of potential damage done to its current anti-terrorist UK operations following leaks about plots against European targets, Channel 4 News learns.