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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia deployed multiple drones overnight to attack parts of Ukraine and dozens were shot down, Ukrainian officials said Monday, in a series of relentless attacks through the weekend that killed three civilians on New Year’s Eve.

The UK announced new sanctions against Russian military commanders, as well as Iranians involved in producing and supplying drones.

The Russian Federation is attempting to source more drones and “hundreds” of missiles from the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to sustain its campaign of strategic strikes against Ukraine, Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) believes. 

The armed forces of India published videos this week showing the nation’s soldiers ordering birds of prey known as “kites” to seize and destroy small drones mid-air.

Britain’s Royal Navy helped to execute the “terrorist attack” which damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia to the European Union, the Russian defence ministry has alleged.

Residents of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv (Kiev) woke up to a swarm of so-called ‘kamikaze’ drones raining down on the city on Monday morning.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are allegedly on the ground in Ukraine training Russian forces in the use of “kamikaze” drones.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia attacked the Ukrainian president’s hometown with suicide drones on Sunday, and Ukraine pushed ahead with its counteroffensive after taking back control of a strategic eastern city.

Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri reportedly met his end on Sunday morning while enjoying the view from the balcony of his safe house, which was located in an upscale Kabul neighborhood inhabited by top Taliban officials. A U.S. drone blew Zawahiri off the balcony with a precision missile that left the other occupants of his home uninjured.

MOSCOW (AP) – A drone-borne explosive device detonated Sunday at the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, injuring six people, officials said.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – A drone that apparently flew undetected over several NATO countries all the way from the Ukrainian war zone crashed overnight on the outskirts of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, triggering a loud blast but causing no injuries, Croatian authorities said Friday.

RIYADH – Air defense systems have been front and center at Saudi Arabia’s first defence show as drone and missile attacks increase in the energy-rich Gulf.

Uno de los cárteles de la droga más violentos del mundo hirió a dos soldados del ejército mexicano al utilizar drones para arrojarles explosivos. El ataque con drones se produce cuando dos carteles principales de la droga luchan por el control de los territorios de producción de drogas y las rutas de tráfico de drogas de Michoacán.

One of the world’s most violent drug cartels injured two Mexican Army soldiers by using drones to drop explosives on them. The drone attack comes as two main drug cartels fight for control of Michoacan’s drug production territories and drug trafficking routes.

United Arab Emirates (UAE) state media reported on Monday that three people were killed and six more injured when a fuel tanker exploded at a port in Abu Dhabi.

Chinese state media on Tuesday pounced on the Pentagon report exonerating all U.S. military personnel of wrongdoing for the August 29 drone strike that killed an innocent civilian and nine members of his family in Kabul, including several children.

The United States Defense Department announced Friday it is committed to giving condolence payments to the families of the individuals killed during an errant U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, which occurred in August.

U.S. defense officials announced on Thursday that senior al-Qaeda leader Salim Abu-Ahmad was killed in an airstrike in the Idlib region of Syria on September 20. Observers in Syria had previously noted what appeared to be a drone strike on a vehicle traveling through rural Syria on that date.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) said there isn’t an over-the-horizon counterterrorism strategy or capability for Afghanistan and that the August 29 drone strike was a double intelligence failure because not only

A failed United States military drone strike that killed as many as 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, is casting doubt over President Joe Biden’s “over the horizon” plan to keep terrorists at bay in Afghanistan.

After a dismal week for the Biden administration on several fronts, the New York Times published a “puff piece” profile on White House press secretary Jen Psaki, which repeatedly praised her as “straightforward” and “professional,” Fox News reported Sunday.

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) said subpoenas are needed to get to the bottom of how the United States military conducted a drone strike in Kabul on August 29 that killed as many as ten civilians, including seven children.

Last week’s hearings were a discouraging reminder that the Democrats who lead Congress aren’t interested in doing much that would make a Democratic president look bad.

Afghan survivors of the failed U.S. drone strike that killed 10 innocent civilians say “sorry” is not enough and are demanding accountability. 

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) dismissed “this idea that we have to hold people accountable, we have to fix this” in the wake of the August 29 drone strike

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO) reacted to the Pentagon admitting that the August 29 drone strike killed civilians and not any ISIS-K members by stating that “There is no ‘over-the-horizon security’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Friday urged journalists to question whether President Joe Biden directly approved a drone strike that reportedly took the lives of several people, including children.

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) stated that with the August 29 drone strike, “we see that this over-the-horizon was not capability, it was tragic, terrible.” And that while Congress has to engage in oversight, “I

The Pentagon appears to think the “tragic mistake” was legal. But there are several questions that still remain about the Aug. 29 strike.

Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore blasted head of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie’s apology for the drone strike late last month in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed ten civilians, including at least seven children. 

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) argued President Joe Biden should have been the one who announced that the August 29 drone strike killed civilians and not any ISIS-K members because the mistaken strike

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) reacted to the Pentagon admitting that the August 29 drone strike killed civilians and not any ISIS-K members by stating that the military on the ground was

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) reacted to the Pentagon admitting that the August 29 drone strike killed civilians and not any ISIS-K members by saying that you need assets that have

Austin admitted that the United States military may have killed up to 10 people, including seven children, in a drone strike in Kabul.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that the Biden administration “was very, very forthcoming saying that they killed a terrorist” with the drone strike intended to target ISIS-K, but now, “They

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to a New York Times report that the American drone strike that was supposed to target ISIS-K actually killed an aid worker by stating we could have