A senior US official has told Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, that an American aircraft downed a Turkish Anka-S drone over northeastern Syria earlier today. So far the United States military has not publicly confirmed the shoot down.
NEW: A U.S. jet fighter shot down a Turkish drone in Syria after it was deemed a threat to U.S. forces in northeast Syria, a person familiar with the episode told WSJ
• A US official said they were aware that it was a Turkish drone pic.twitter.com/FNnRxCuCr3
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The drone was reportedly deemed a threat to American military personnel at joint bases with Kurdish forces in the region. Turkey has ramped up drone strikes in Syria and northern Iraq against Kurdish targets in the wake of the PKK attack against the Turkish Interior Ministry in Ankara on Sunday.
