Get the data: What the drones strike
A full dataset and methodology showing what the drones attacked in Pakistan.
A full dataset and methodology showing what the drones attacked in Pakistan.
Read the secret report showing the government’s assessment of over 300 strikes.
See the full leaked Pakistani report on CIA drone attacks.
Reported deaths and injuries
Our complete
Pakistan datasheet
Most recent strike:
June 6 2015
Total strikes: 419
Obama strikes: 368
Total killed: 2,467-3,976
Civilians killed: 423-965
Children killed: 172-207
Injured: 1,152-1,731
Most recent strike:
June 2 2015
Confirmed drone strikes: 97-117
Total killed: 453-673
Civilians killed: 65-97
Children killed: 8-9
Injured: 88-217
Possible extra drone strikes: 76-92
Total killed: 320-462
Civilians killed: 26-61
Children killed: 6-9
Injured: 78-105
Other covert operations: 15-72
Total killed: 156-365
Civilians killed: 68-99
Children killed: 26-28
Injured: 15-102
Our complete
Somalia datasheet
Most recent strike:
March 12 2015
Drone strikes: 9-13
Total killed: 23-105
Civilians killed: 0-5
Children killed: 0
Injured: 2-7
Other covert operations: 8-11
Total killed: 40-141
Civilians killed: 7-47
Children killed: 0-2
Injured: 11-21
Most recent strike:
June 3 2015
Confirmed strikes: 9
Total killed: 78-91
Civilians killed: 0
Children killed: 0
Injured: 1
Possible extra strikes: 18
Total killed: 79-120
Civilians killed: 0-2
Children killed: 0-2
Injured: 9
Dataset: Nato’s combat operations may have stopped, but US counter-terrorism operations continue in Afghanistan
Dataset: US promised to continue its counter terrorism campaign in Yemen despite turmoil that engulfed the country.
Dataset: 2015 began as 2014 ended for the CIA – apparently hunting Taliban fighters along the Afghan border with North Waziristan
Dataset: 2014 started with the longest pause in drone strikes of the 10-year campaign.
Dataset: The Bureau’s database on reported CIA and JSOC air strikes and other covert actions in Yemen.
Dataset: US resumes targeting of alleged militants within days of the year’s start.
Dataset: Increased debate around the use of drones affects the campaign in Pakistan.
Dataset: US covert operations in Yemen peaked in May 2012 with an intense assault on al Qaeda.
Dataset: A searchable record of US covert operations in Yemen from the start of the war on terror.
Dataset: Bureau’s analysis of secretive western military intervention in Somalia since September 2001.
Dataset: Civilian casualties fell sharply as drones launched the fewest strikes of the Obama presidency.
Dataset: Various crises in US-Pakistani relations may have contributed to a decline in strikes in 2011.
Dataset: The largest number of CIA drone strikes hit Pakistan in the campaign so far.
Dataset: In 2009 Obama carried out as many drone strikes on Pakistan as Bush in five years.
Dataset: During President Bush’s time in office there were 52 drone strikes on Pakistan.
Over the past two years, the Bureau has made an extensive study of reports of US covert activities in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Below are the Bureau’s datasets tracking the reported strikes.
Read how the Bureau compiled its data – The methodology.

Who is dying in Pakistan drone strikes? See the Bureau’s Naming the Dead project.