While the Syrian military has mostly left the US coalition warplanes alone in their campaign against ISIS, today Syrian officials confirmed the shootdown of a US surveillance drone over the Latakia coast.
The US has confirmed the loss of the drone over Syria, but said they couldn’t confirm if it was shot down or not yet. This would be the first downing of an American craft by Syrian forces.
While the US coalition never made a formal deal with Syria on airstrikes, they’ve had a tacit understanding about them. The surveillance drone at question today was apparently not armed, and Syrian officials believed it was surveilling them with an eye toward hostile actions.
The US had threatened to attack Syrian forces if they fired on any warplanes in their territory, though it’s unclear if the drone will count, especially since it appears to have been targeting Syria in the first place.
Not clear if US really was fighting ISIS or where propping them up, and since US lost it´s dubious initiative in Iraq to Iran and Gen. Soleimani who successfully has repelled them, it is now clear that they are fanning the flames from both sides (a technique mastered by the zionazi´s in occupied Palestine).
The Iran/iraq coalition has stopped short of taking Tikrit where the ISIS are trapped entirely because US/Saudi choppers are supplying them with munitions (if you can´t have it break it, just like Libya)
The US is acting as ISIS air force and drops ammunition to them in Iraq as they where doing in Kobane/Ayn al Arab up until the moment it stood clear that the Kurds where winning. Now, as far as Syria is concerned, the US is violating it´s airspace no matter what and that obviously include drones. A year ago the US where threatening to invade Syria under various pre-texts and false-flags and has repeatedly demanded their President to step down for one of their own choosing. Nobody is buying that they are flying armed or un-armed drones to enjoy the scenery or something. After this though, the US can expect for certain that the Syrians will get the Russian drone fighter "Autobasa" with which Iran repeatedly are downing US drones…
american aggrandizement: no one in the world could be successful with out secret support from the united states.
russians don't have a drone called "Autobasa."
they do have a jamming system called "Avtobaza"
which was deliver to iran shortly before they downed the drone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avtobaza
I said "the Russian drone fighter" Not Drone and the spelling was deliberately simplified.
Russian naval base.