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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS claims downed US drone
2016-09-24
So what? Drones are relatively cheap and easily replaced. That's the point. Besides, they missed the radio-controlled squirrels and ditto flies while they were distracted. You should see the video they got... and the little gifts they left behind.
HASAKAH – The Islamic State (ISIS) radical group on Friday claimed responsibility for shooting down an American drone near the Shaddadi City in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah Governorate.

ISIS leadership said in a statement, released by the jihadi Amaq agency, that its fighters shot down the drone after targeting it with heavy machine guns.

Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, media activist Muhammad Mardoud said that a US drone was downed in the southwestern suburb of Shaddadi, near the Syrian-Iraqi border.

“However, it was not immediately clear if ISIS was really behind the operation,” Mardoud said.

“Shaddadi and its countryside are under the control of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). ISIS has recently launched a series of attacks on the SDF positions there, and the group might has been able to infiltrate into southern Shaddadi to send a message to the US by shooting down one of its drones,” the activist said.

The Pentagon has not commented on the incident yet.

This is not the first time for ISIS to shoot down drones or warplanes in Syria.

Last Wednesday, the radical group shot down a Syrian jet in the Damascus suburb. “Short after taking off from the Dumair airbase in Damascus suburb, the warplane was targeted by terrorists’ fire and crashed over eastern Qalamoun,” a commander in the Syrian army told ARA News on Sept. 22nd.

On July 9th, two Russian pilots died near the Syrian city of Palmyra when their helicopter was shot down by ISIS fighters.

On July 22nd, ISIS shot down a Syrian army warplane in the central province of Homs. The jihadi Amaq agency released images showing a destroyed Syrian warplane, saying it crashed after ISIS militants hit it with a rocket. Local activists told ARA News that the warplane was hit after entering the airspace of Jib al-Jarrah district in Homs.
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