US jet shoots down Turkish drone in Syria -Pentagon


  • World
  • Thursday, 05 Oct 2023

FILE PHOTO: A bomb disposal expert works at the scene after a bomb attack in Ankara, Turkey October 1, 2023. REUTERS/Cagla Gurdogan/File Photo

WASHINGTON/ANKARA (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday shot down an armed Turkish drone that was operating near its troops in Syria, the Pentagon said, the first time Washington has brought down an aircraft of NATO ally Turkey.

A Turkish defense ministry official said the drone that was shot down did not belong to the Turkish armed forces, but did not say whose property it was.

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