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  • Why the UK launched its first targeted drone strike ever

    Thomas Joscelyn

    News
    Apr 26, 2017

    The UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee has released its investigative report on the Aug. 21, 2015 drone strike that killed UK national Reyaad Khan. The bombing was “the first time outside participation in a military campaign that the UK had conducted a lethal drone strike against a terrorist target.” Khan was one of the Islamic State’s most prolific cyber planners.

    Why the UK launched its first targeted drone strike ever
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