It also comes just days after a US F/A-18 shot down a regime warplane after it dropped bombs near US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighting ISIS in the area around Tabqah, Syria, in the country's north. "This is the same location where another pro-regime UAV dropped munitions near Coalition forces before it was shot down, June 8", the coalition said.
"Hostile intent and actions of pro-regime forces toward coalition and partner forces in Syria conducting legitimate counter-ISIS (Daesh) operations will not be tolerated", the coalition statement read.
Australia's halt in operations came after Russia's Defense Ministry said on Monday that "all kinds of airborne vehicles, including aircraft and UAVs of the worldwide coalition.will be tracked by the Russian SAM systems as air targets" if flying west of the Euphrates River in Syria.
Moscow has now suspended a hotline meant to prevent confrontations in Syria s crowded air space, and warned it could consider US-led coalition planes "targets".
The U.S. -allied forces are using the base to train for battle and stage attacks against the Islamic State (IS) extremist group.
Washington also described those strikes as self-defence.
"If it looks like they are making a concerted effort to move into ISIS-held areas, and if they show that they can do that, that is not a bad sign", Dillon said, referring to forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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The US military said it had shot down an armed, Iranian-made drone that had been bearing down on its forces near a garrison in Syria's south-east on Tuesday, in the latest sign of increasingly frequent confrontation with Damascus and its allies.
"It is absolutely illegal", Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Tuesday of the presence of American forces in Syria. She touts traditional supply side economics, going so far as to say during one debate that she does "not support a living wage" - her way of explaining her opposition to a minimum-wage increase. Georgia voters steadily streamed into suburban Atlanta polling places Tuesday, set to decide the most expensive House race in USA history and put weeks of television ads, phone calls and ringing doorbells behind them.
After announcing a temporary halt of all air operations in Syria earlier this week, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) will resume its right to undertake airborne missions, the Department of Defence announced Thursday.
It comes after Russian Federation threatened to target coalition warplanes in retaliation for the United States downing a Syrian government jet, and as a USA jet on Wednesday morning (AEST) downed a pro-Syrian regime drone in the country's southeast.
Both the United States and Russian Federation contend their forces are in Syria to fight ISIS.
The incident comes after the USA shot down a Syrian fighter plane on Sunday and another drone earlier this month. Also, help improve the economy of Iran so that risks to them of a major war become untenable to a resulting expanding middle class, and tie some future aide to Iraq to oil wealth getting to the Kurdish people.
"Any flying objects, including planes and drones of the global coalition, discovered west of the Euphrates River will be tracked as aerial targets by Russia's air defences on and above ground", said Russia's defence ministry.
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