Search results for ‘drones’
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‘Drones will push people towards terrorism’ – Imran Khan
Imran Khan tells Channel 4 News drone attacks in Pakistan are “fomenting radicalisation” and calls on the US to name victims to prove they are killing terrorists, not civilians.
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US Reaper drones in Seychelles ‘unarmed’ says minister
The Seychelles government hits back at allegations the US is using the islands to launch drone attacks in Somalia and Yemen, insisting the aircraft are monitoring pirates not terrorists.
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US hunter-killer drones ‘flying from Seychelles’
America’s covert war on terror is expanding across the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, with the building of secret drone airbases from Ethiopia to the Seychelles.
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Taliban ‘hero’ Ilyas Kashmiri killed by US drones
A senior Pakistan Taliban leader confirms to Channel 4 News that their leader Ilyas Kashmiri was killed by a US drone strike, but denied any involvement in recent Pakistan attacks.
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US drones: lessons for Libya from Pakistan
As the US approves armed drone attacks on President Gaddafi’s forces in Libya, Channel 4 News looks at America’s record of drone strikes in Pakistan, believed to be led by the CIA.
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US deploys unmanned Predator drones over Libya
The use of the armed drones has been approved by President Obama, and they are already in operation. Predator drones have been used extensively in Pakistan and other areas without US ground troops.
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‘America’s drones go where its thousands of troops cannot’
Why have drones or unmanned warplanes become so important to America’s war in Afghanistan? Surely it is the realisation that the Obama troop surge there cannot box the Taliban into a corner.
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US drones: tools of modern warfare
With the UN saying CIA use of drones in Pakistan is “illegal”, Channel 4 News correspondent Sarah Smith visits an army base training soldiers to use them as America’s main weapon against al-Qaida.
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What difference will long-range missiles make to Ukraine in the war with Russia?
It appears that US President Joe Biden has limited the cross-border use of ATACMS to Kursk, a small area of Russia which Ukraine invaded in August.
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Could the Ukraine conflict become a world war?
Until now, the warring parties have remained Russia and Ukraine, and the war has not spread. But could the involvement of North Korea change that?
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Will Trump trigger Ukraine’s defeat?
When Donald Trump collects his keys to the White House on 20 January, Ukraine could be in its weakest position since the start of the war.
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Ukraine and Russia swap prisoners of war in deal brokered by UAE
95 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been returned home – with the same number of Russians exchanged in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates.
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FactCheck: why did Iran attack Israel, why did Israel invade Lebanon, and is ‘world war’ likely?
Here are some of the questions FactCheck readers are asking about the conflict.
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Israel’s response ‘depends on damage on the ground’ says UK military expert
We’re joined by Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute.
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Israel will be ‘hammered into submission’ if it strikes Iran, says Iranian academic
Iranian academic Mohammad Marandi, who is normally based in Tehran, joined us from Beirut.
