Join SWANA Region Radio in conversation with Pakistani-American journalist Umar Farooq about the global proliferation of drones as a weapon of war. Last week Umar published an essay on Turkey’s TB2 drone which has been used both in Ethiopia against the Tigray region and in Ukraine as an important weapon against Russia’s invasion. We discuss with him today the expanding use of drones as weapons of war globally and the ambiguous position of the United States with regard to their manufacture, spread, and deployment. If you miss our live broadcast on kpfk.org, you can listen to this show and our previous shows on Spotify, Anchor, Google Podcasts, Breaker, and Radio Public.
Umar Farooq is an independent journalist whose work has covered most of our SWANA Region, from Pakistan to Egypt and Syria. Currently based in New York, where he is an Ancil Payne Fellow with ProPublica, in 2017 he received a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to report from Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas. He has written widely about the impact of drone strikes and targeted assassinations, especially in Afghanistan and North-West Pakistan.His writings have appeared in The Daily Beast, ProPublica, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, and other leading English-language outlets.
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