KABUL: (Middle East Press) At least nine people have been killed in the US drone strike in Yemen.

According to Antiwar website, in a move seen by many as an attempted retaliation against the announced execution of an American journalist by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), America has launched a drone strike against the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa.

Five years ago the suggestion that within a decade drone strikes would be taking place on a regular basis in multiple countries with little notice by the mainstream media or the general public seemed far-fetched to many.

Today, with drone strikes being undertaken in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, and no doubt Libya again too soon (and not to forget the regular sporadic bursts of Israeli regime’s strikes in Gaza) such a prediction looks a lot more likely, if not a certainty.

Continuing daily ‘precise’ airstrikes by America, Britain and other nations against ISIS terrorist group’s targets in Iraq and Syria are currently almost invisible in the news media except for a few stories re-presenting carefully controlled DoD and MoD press statements.

Meanwhile America continues to increase its military forces in the area with A-10 aircraft and further Reaper drones being deployed from Afghanistan. Britain is also likely to have deployed further Reaper drones from Afghanistan but insists that it can’t reveal such information.

Investigative Journalist Chris Woods, who continues to monitor and detail airstrikes taking place in Iraq and Syria, reports that at least 100 non-combatants may have been killed in the airstrikes since the start of the operation.

Nine people were killed in the drone strike, and while none of them were conclusively named, Yemen referred to them as “alleged al-Qaeda militants.”

The journalist, Luke Somers, was the targeted of a failed American rescue operation last week, and was reported to have been executed by AQAP, along with a South African aid worker.

The United State has been launching growing numbers of drone strikes against Yemen, killing a number of people, but as with the drone war everywhere else, it is extremely rare for anyone to be named.

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