The Pentagon said the drone had been observed carrying out airstrikes shortly before flying within about 550 yards of U.S. forces.
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Syria Drone Attack Kills at Least 80, Government Says
Retaliatory shelling by Syrian government forces against towns in the northwest killed at least eight people, according to a rights group.
U.S. Commandos Capture Six ISIS Officials in Raids in Syria
The operations were the second time in recent weeks that U.S. forces had killed or captured ISIS terrorists.
Turkey Bombs Kurdish Foes in Iraq and Syria, Likely Killing Dozens
Turkish officials said the airstrikes were a counterterrorism operation against militants it accused of carrying out a bomb attack in Istanbul.
ISIS Fighters’ Children Are Growing Up in a Desert Camp. What Will They Become?
Leaving captured men, women and children in prisons and camps run by Kurds risks seeding a new global terrorism disaster, rights groups and the U.S. military warn.
Violence Erupts at Syrian Camp for ISIS Families, Leaving a Child Dead
Security forces say they opened fire this week after they were attacked by women and children at Al Hol camp in northeastern Syria, which holds about 60,000 family members of former ISIS fighters.
Syria’s Kurds Wanted Autonomy. They Got an Endless War.
The Kurds of northeastern Syria dreamed of establishing an autonomous, multiethnic and gender-equal utopia. Instead, their breakaway region has been engulfed in conflict since its creation.
Teenage Inmates in Syria Lack Food and Medicine, Aid Group Says
UNICEF was given the first glimpse of teenage detainees at a prison attacked by ISIS two weeks ago in northeastern Syria.
Teenage Inmates Found Among the 500 Dead in Syria Prison Attack
The bodies of at least two boys were found on a street behind the prison — the first confirmed deaths among up to 700 teenagers who had been detained there because they were the children of ISIS fighters.
U.S. Allies Retake Control of Prison in Syria, Subduing ISIS Fighters
The fighting was the most intense urban warfare involving American troops in Iraq and Syria since the fall of the Islamic State.