{"id":145378,"date":"2015-04-03T00:36:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T00:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=145378"},"modified":"2015-04-03T00:36:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T00:36:17","slug":"finally-revealed-uk-drone-strikes-in-afghanistan-by-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/finally-revealed-uk-drone-strikes-in-afghanistan-by-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally revealed: UK drone strikes in Afghanistan by province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than three years after <a href=\"http:\/\/dronewars.net\/2014\/07\/02\/uk-drone-foi-appeal-set-to-reach-upper-tribunal\/\" target=\"_blank\">first submitting<\/a> a Freedom of Information request, the UK Ministry of Defence has finally told us in which Afghan provinces UK drones strikes took place.<\/p>\n<p>Although there is no detail on the number\u00a0of strikes within each province, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dronewarsuk.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/20150325-foi-cole-reaper-strikes-in-afghanistan-provinces.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">MoD reveals<\/a> that UK drones strikes occurred in 16 out of Afghan\u2019s 33 provinces between May 2008 and November 2014. \u00a0Full statistical details of UK drone operations in Afghanistan compiled from Freedom of Information requests and other public information is available <a href=\"http:\/\/dronewars.net\/uk-drone-strike-list-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The MoD stresses that the final UK drone mission in Afghanistan was completed on 15 November 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The geographical distribution of the UK strikes is wider than we suspected \u2014 covering the whole southern half of Afghanistan as well as Eastern provinces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dronewars.net\/2015\/04\/02\/finally-revealed-uk-drone-strikes-in-afghanistan-by-province\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than three years after first submitting a Freedom of Information request, the UK Ministry of Defence has finally told us in which Afghan provinces UK drones strikes took place. Although there is no detail on the number\u00a0of strikes within each province, the MoD reveals that UK drones strikes occurred in 16 out of Afghan\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}