The armed Turkish drone was shot down by U.S. F-16s it flew within a half-mile of American personnel in Hasakah, Syria, the Pentagon said.
An American fighter jet shot down an armed Turkish drone on Thursday as the unmanned aircraft approached U.S. troops in northern Syria, the Pentagon said, acknowledging an unusual, alarming encounter among NATO allies that occurred as deadly violence has spiked throughout the region.Air Force F-16s closed in on the drone about 11:40 a.m. local time after it came within a half-mile of American troops in Hasakah, said Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman.
Turkey deems the Kurdish forces partnered with U.S. troops in Syria, a militia group known as the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, to be an affiliate of the PKK. The U.S. government disagrees.On Sunday, two suspected PKK militants carried out a suicide bomb attack near government buildings in Ankara, the Turkish capital. The attackers were killed and two Turkish policemen were wounded.
Fidan also warned unnamed “third parties” to stay away from such facilities, in a possible reference to foreign forces present in northern Syria, including the United States.that the Turkish National Intelligence Organization was responsible for the airstrikes around Hasakah on Thursday. The attack targeted “PKK/YPG weapons and ammunitions warehouses” and “terrorist attack and sabotage units,” it said.
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