Syria's state news agency SANA said on Tuesday its air defenses have brought down a U.S. surveillance plane in the coastal province of Latakia.
"Syrian air defenses brought down a hostile U.S. surveillance plane in northern Latakia," SANA said in a bulletin, without giving further details.
BREAKING: Syrian government is now saying they have shot down a US drone pic.twitter.com/LxjDHf8gkU
- Conflict News (@rConflictNews) March 17, 2015#Syria #Latakia #Lattakia Reports are the downed Recon Plane was a MQ-1C Gray Eagle. http://t.co/lPry0eq0uL pic.twitter.com/6YUXqqC2dM
- Ivan Sidorenko (@IvanSidorenko1) March 17, 2015
If true, the news is ironic. The US is operating in Syrian skies to bomb ISIS, and have said that they will not target the regime of Bashar al-Assad. That said, Latakia, located on the Medittarnean coast, is firmly in regime control.
