AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's air force shot down an unidentified drone near the north-eastern border with Syria on Friday, a government spokesman said, the first such event announced by authorities since Syria's crisis began in 2011.
Mohammad al-Momani told Reuters the "aerial target was shot after being intercepted" when it violated Jordanian air space near the northern border city of Mafraq. It came down in a desert area.
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