The events detailed here occurred in 2016. These have been reported by US or Pakistani government, military and intelligence officials, and by credible media, academic and other sources, including on occasion Bureau researchers. Below is a summary of CIA drone strikes and casualty estimates for 2016. Please note that our data changes according to our current understanding of particular strikes. Below represents our present best estimate.
You can access a complete spreadsheet of all strike and casualty data for Pakistan here.
CIA strikes – Obama 2016 |
|
| Total CIA drone strikes | 1 |
| Total reported killed: | 5 |
| Civilians reported killed: | 0 |
| Children reported killed: | 0 |
| Total reported injured: | 2 |
Pakistan
CIA drones killed five people in on January 9, including a Pakistan Taliban commander. It was the first US attack in Pakistan since September 1 2015.
| January 2016 | 2004 onwards | |
| CIA drone strikes: | 1 | 422 |
| Total killed: | 5 | 2,493-3,994 |
| Civilians reported killed: | 0 | 423-965 |
The Bureau’s timeline of events in the drone war in Pakistan in 2016.
Afghanistan
The US launched an onslaught of jet and drone strikes in January, most targeting fighters from the so-called Islamic State – Khorasan group, the Afghan offshoot of the Iraq and Syria-based group.
| January 2016 | 2015 onwards | |
| US strikes: | 43 | 230 |
| Total killed: | 193-196 | 988-1,413 |
| Civilians reported killed: | 1 | 57-86 |
The Bureau is collecting data on individual strikes in Afghanistan – summarised above. However not all strikes are reported in open source material. The US Air Force publishes an aggregate summary of strikes in Afghanistan without any casualty information, which we have reproduced below.
| US Air Force data for 2015 | |
| Total Close Air Support (CAS) sorties with at least one weapon release: |
411 |
| Total CAS sorties: | 4,676 |
| Total weapons released: | 94 |
The Bureau’s timeline of events in the drone war in Afghanistan so far in 2016.
Yemen
Two US drone strikes killed five people in January. Three died in an overnight attack on January 15 and two died in an evening strike on January 19.
| January 2016 | 2001 onwards | |
| US drone strikes: | 2 | 108-128 |
| Total killed: | 5 | 496-729 |
| Civilians reported killed: | 0 | 65-101 |
The Bureau’s timeline of events in the drone war in Yemen in 2016.
Somalia
No US strikes were reported in January after 11 were recorded in 2015 – an unprecedented number of attacks in a year in Somalia.
| January 2016 | 2007 onwards | |
| US drone strikes: | 0 | 18-22 |
| Total killed: | 0 | 38-126 |
| Civilians reported killed: | 0 | 0-7 |
The Bureau’s timeline of events in the drone war in Somalia.
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