Carla Babb, the Pentagon correspondent for Voice of America (VOA) tweeted Tuesday saying the sources have confirmed that the Iranian-made drone shot down by the us fighter jet was being operated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Russian Federation backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom Iran also supports, while the US -led coalition is aligned with groups that oppose the Assad regime and ISIS.
For the first time in two years, Syrian troops reached the border with Iraq, establishing a link with Iraqi forces that were advancing on their side, and outflanking US troops and allied rebels in Tanf, near the border with Jordan.
Australia's military yesterday said it was temporarily halting air missions over Syria, following the shooting down of a Syrian jet by USA forces. The Bahraini cleric wrote religious justifications for the enslavement of hundreds of women from Iraq's Yazidi minority and helped establish the IS branch in Libya. In just over a month, USA forces have struck Iranian-backed Shia militias in southern Syria three times, and on Sunday a U.S. F/A-18 shot down a Syrian Arab Air Force Su-22 jet.
The unmanned aircraft allegedly displayed hostile intent toward USA -backed coalition forces, which includes local and foreign Islamist militants, in a part of Syria that was recently identified as a military priority by Damascus. Despite protests from the Syrian government, which requested Russia's military backing in 2015, the USA has set up an operations base to train and assist anti-government groups fighting ISIS.
It was the second time this month that the US has shot down an armed drone in the vicinity of the camp at Tanf.
The drone was thought to be armed and threatening US-led coalition troops on the ground, officials said. The truce was meant to be extended but now appears to have collapsed.
"In accordance with rules of engagement and in collective self-defence of coalition-partnered forces, [the Syrian jet] was immediately shot down by a US F/A-18E Super Hornet", a coalition statement read.
Daraa-based activist Ahmad al-Masalmeh says fighting is now underway in the city.
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Daraa is where the March 2011 uprising against the Assad family's four-decade rule began. The crisis quickly became a civil war, which has since left at least 400,000 people dead.
In September, Australia said it would widen the scope of targets in the air war against ISIL by allowing its pilots to strike support and logistics resources in Iraq and Syria.
The remarks came amid questions whether the strike had been effective.
It was not known what exactly was hit and Iran has provided no details.
The development comes as tensions rise in Syria with Russian Federation and Iran sending USA warnings.
The U.S. needed to send a deterrent message or Syrian President Bashar Assad will continue to press his offensive across SDF-held territory.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syria's war, said government forces expanded their presence in Raqqa province by capturing from IS the town of Rasafa.
Bassam Abu Abdullah, a professor of International Relations at Damascus University, said the advances by pro-Assad troops undermined US plans in the area to sever a land corridor linking the capitals of Syria, Iraq, Iran and Lebanon.
Adding to the tension, Iran launched missiles at ISIS targets in eastern Syria on Sunday, a strike seen as a projection of military power into part of Syria identified as a top priority by Damascus and its allies.
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