What has Happened: Yesterday, a U.S. F-16 shot down an armed Turkish drone after it flew near U.S. forces in northeast Syria and ignored warnings to depart the area. While the Pentagon had no reason to believe that Turkey was targeting U.S. forces in the region, there have been other close calls such as in 2019 when U.S. troops in northern Syria came under Turkish artillery fire. Turkey’s national intelligence agency recently carried out strikes in Syria against Kurdish militants after a bomb attack in Ankara last weekend. U.S. support for Kurdish forces in northern Syria (that are helping in ... Academy SITREP – U.S. Jet Shoots Down Turkish Drone Over Syria