A Decade of Jihadi Organizations’ Use of Drones

Jihadi Drone Factory

The Middle East Media Research Institute has just published a a report entitled A Decade Of Jihadi Organizations’ Use Of Drones – From Early Experiments By Hizbullah, Hamas, And Al-Qaeda To Emerging National Security Crisis For The West As ISIS Launches First Attack Drones

The MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project has been monitoring jihadis’ use of drones over the past decade, and has seen their advances in research and development culminating in the Islamic State (ISIS) Ninawa province’s release, on January 24, 2017, of a 40-minute video showing its new weaponized drones.

Since this video came out, ISIS has carried out drone attacks on a nearly daily basis, and releasing videos and still photos of these attacks. This represents a major development in this area, and the MEMRI JTTM will be releasing further research on this issue in the future.

To read the full article, click here.

Source: MEMRI

[To understand more about MEMRI and accusations of bias against it  we recommend the feature in Wikipedia – Ed.]

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