TEHRAN (FNA)- A Yemeni farmer was killed by a US drone strike in Southeastern Yemen on Thursday. Witnesses claim the farmer was killed by the shrapnel propelling from two rockets fired by the drone early Thursday morning as he walked in the village of Al-Houta, Reuters reported. A local government official confirmed the report. Last month,...

A US assassination drone attack in Yemen has left two people dead in the eastern province of Hadhramout, local officials say. The officials said on Wednesday that the drone fired at least one missile on a car in the al-Qatan region. The attack, which completely destroyed the vehicle, killed the two al-Qaeda suspects, they added. The United States ...

A human rights group says that a recent US assassination drone attack that targeted a wedding ceremony in Yemen killed a dozen civilians and no al-Qaeda operatives. Human rights charity group Reprieve said it has collected some exclusive video, photographs and testimonies about the attack, which was carried out on December 12, 2013. The video and ...

The relatives of Yemeni people killed in a recent US drone strike in central part of the country have demanded an apology and compensation, an official said. The US drone attacked a wedding convoy near the town of Rada'a, in al-Bayda Province, on Thursday, killing 17 people. A tribal committee went to the capital, Sanaa, in an effort to mediate ...

A US assassination drone strike has killed several people at a wedding party in southern Yemen, tribal sources said. The US unmanned aircraft targeted Qaifa district near the town of Rada'a in the al-Bayda governorate on Thursday, the sources added. Several others were also wounded in the attack. There were no reports on the exact casualty figures....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Two major human right groups blasted the US for killing large groups of civilians in its so-called drone campaign against the Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Dave Lindorff in an article said that two respected human rights organizations (Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International) blasted the US for its use of missile-firing drone aircraft ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 23 (MNA) Human rights groups on Tuesday accused the United States of breaking international law and perhaps committing war crimes by killing civilians in missile and drone strikes that were intended to hit militants in Pakistan and Yemen. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch released separate reports detailing the deaths of dozens ...

The United Nations has called on the United States to reveal civilian casualties caused by its assassination drone strikes. A UN investigation, conducted by Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson and reported on Friday, accused the US of defying international legal norms by using lethal force outside war zones. The investigation found that US drone strikes ...

Legal action charity Reprieve says US assassination drone strikes in Yemen are illegal under international law and they are driving people into the arms of al-Qaeda,Press TVreports. The UK-based charity, which also has organizations in the United States, Australia and the Netherlands, organized an event in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday to highlight ...

TEHRAN, Aug.20 (MNA) The United Nations human rights chief has criticized the United States and Israels practice of carrying out drone attacks in different countries. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay censured the deadly drone raids at a UN Security Council meeting on the protection of civilians on Monday. The current lack of transparency ...

At least two people have been killed in an airstrike carried out by a US terror drone in Yemens southern Shabwa province. The incident took place late on Monday after the US drone targeted a car, a local official said, adding that the vehicle was completely destroyed and the two men inside were killed. A surge in the US drone attacks have killed ...

A US assassination drone strike has killed at least four people in Yemen, the third of such attacks in the last five days. The drone strike was carried out in the southeastern province of Hadramawt on Thursday. The attack came ahead of scheduled talks between Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi and US President Barack Obama in Washington. On ...