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U.S. Says It Shot Down Drone That Attacked Fighters in Syria

2017-06-09 8 Dailymotion

U.S. Says It Shot Down Drone That Attacked Fighters in Syria<br />By MICHAEL R. GORDONJUNE 8, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — An American warplane shot down a "pro-Syrian regime" drone on Thursday after the<br />drone attacked United States-backed fighters in southern Syria, the American military said.<br />American official said that the zone is intended to keep pro-Assad forces at a safe distance from the al-Tanf garrison but<br />that the American-backed Syrian fighters and their coalition advisers patrol and operate beyond the buffer area.<br />Their push eastward has brought them into proximity with American-backed Syrian fighters, who are being trained to battle the Islamic State<br />and are operating out of a garrison at al-Tanf, a Syrian town close to the intersection of the Syrian, Iraqi and Jordanian borders.<br />The confrontation was the latest clash in a potential proxy war in Syria<br />that pits Iranian-backed militias that support President Bashar al-Assad against Syrian fighters who have been trained by American, British and other coalition military advisers.<br />The episode occurred when the drone, which United States officials said appeared to be Iranian-made, dropped a munition<br />near the Syrian fighters, who were accompanied at the time by advisers from the American-led coalition.<br />The United States Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, said in a statement<br />that it wanted to keep the focus on fighting the Islamic State and was not looking for a confrontation with the Assad government — or with the Russian and Iranian-backed forces that are supporting it.

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