US Air Force: MQ-9 drone crashes in northern Syria

Washington, SANA – U.S. Air Forces Central Command announced on Tuesday that an MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft crashed in northern Syria.

The Command was careful in its statement to deny that the aircraft might have been shot down, saying operators lost control of the aircraft.

Earlier, SITE Monitoring Service of the SITE Intelligence Group quoted media outlets affiliated to ISIS terrorist organization as saying that fighters from the organization shot down a U.S. drone near al-Tabqa city in the countryside of Raqqa province.

H. Said