Latest Drone surveillance and warfare News

Hezbollah's drones are a fierce and evasive threat to Israel

Oct. 14, 2024 14:08 PM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — One of the worst mass casualty strikes on Israel in a year of war came not from dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles nor the repeated barrages of rocket fire launched by Hamas and Hezbollah. Instead, it was a single drone. The unmanned aerial vehicle, laden...

EU targets top Iran officials and airlines, accusing them of supplying drones and missiles to Russia

Oct. 14, 2024 07:29 AM EDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on Iran’s deputy defense minister, senior members of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and three airlines over allegations that they supplied drones, missiles and other equipment to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine. ...

Russian missiles and drones target Kyiv for 5 hours and hit Ukraine's power grid

Sep. 26, 2024 07:39 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s air defenses battled an overnight Russian aerial attack on the capital Kyiv for five hours, officials said Thursday, as missiles and drones again hammered the Ukrainian power grid. The Kyiv attack injured at least two people, Ukraine’s Emergency...

Jeanine Tesori becomes first woman composer to open Met Opera season with reworked `Grounded'

Sep. 23, 2024 12:27 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeanine Tesori watched the world premiere run of her “Grounded” with director Michael Mayer last fall at the Kennedy Center and noticed audience fidgeting. “It didn’t need a transplant of a liver, but what it needed was maybe just a different approach,”...

A woman is killed near Moscow after more than 140 Ukrainian drones target Russia, officials say

Sep. 10, 2024 11:36 AM EDT

Over 140 Ukrainian drones targeted multiple Russian regions overnight, including Moscow and surrounding areas, killing at least one person and injuring eight, officials said Tuesday, in one of the biggest drone attacks on Russian soil in the 2 1/2-year war. A woman died in the town...

Yemen's Houthi rebels claim they shot down another US MQ-9 drone

Sep. 08, 2024 21:30 PM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed early Sunday they shot down another American-made MQ-9 drone flying over the country, marking potentially the latest downing of the multimillion-dollar surveillance aircraft. The U.S. launched airstrikes over Houthi-controlled...

US military says drone strike in Syria kills a Saudi militant from an al-Qaida-linked group

Aug. 23, 2024 18:55 PM EDT

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A drone strike in northwestern Syria on Friday killed a Saudi militant from an al-Qaida-linked group as he was riding on a motorcycle, the U.S. military and a war monitor said. The strike in the Jabal al-Zawiya area of the opposition-held Idlib province was...