Drone warfare kills over 1,000 in Sudan in 2026 as strikes multiply: UN
Key takeaways
- Reports show drone use is expanding, with more than 1,000 civilians killed in first five months of 2026.
- The death toll is due to a “sharp” increase in the use of drone warfare in the country’s vicious civil war, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Volker Turk said in a speech on Monday.
- “In Sudan, the horrific conflict has expanded and escalated, marked by a sharp increase in the use of drone warfare,” he told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Reports show drone use is expanding, with more than 1,000 civilians killed in first five months of 2026.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Smoke rises after a drone attack on Sudan's Khartoum International Airport, in a screen grab taken from social media video [File: Reuters]By Virginia Pietromarchi Published On 15 Jun 202615 Jun 2026More than 1,000 civilians in Sudan have been killed in drone strikes in the first five months of 2026, according to the United Nations.
The death toll is due to a “sharp” increase in the use of drone warfare in the country’s vicious civil war, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Volker Turk said in a speech on Monday.