Moscow, 19 August 2024 (TDI): Russia has said that a fighter-bomber jet of the US-led coalition in Syria came “dangerously” close to a Russian surveillance aircraft over Homs province on Sunday.
A Russian military official in Syria said that the US has 900 troops in the Middle Eastern country and 2,500 in neighboring Iraq on a mission to advise and help local troops trying to prevent a resurgence of ISIS, which in 2014 seized large swaths of both states but was later pushed back.
A coalition F/A-18 fighter-bomber jet came into dangerous contact with an An-30 plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which was carrying out a scheduled flight in Syrian airspace, Captain Oleg Ignasyuk, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria, said, according to Russian state media.
The Russian crew, demonstrating high professionalism, promptly took the required measures to prevent a collision.
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The incident occurred over the Al-Tanf region of Homs.
The US has a military base in Syria’s Al-Tanf region across the border from Jordan.
Farkhund Yousafzai is an Associate Editor at The Diplomatic Insight.
