Friday, June 15, 2018 10:48:09 PM
‘Syrian Kurds shoot down Turkish drone over Afrin’

Militants from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have tracked and shot down a Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle in the skies over Syria’s northwestern region of Afrin as Ankara government pushes ahead with its cross-border offensive against the US-backed forces.

The YPG announced in a statement that the Kurdish forces had struck a Bayraktar TB2 medium altitude and long-range drone on Monday evening as it was on a reconnaissance mission over Qodeh village of Afrin, the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported.

The development came days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had signed the body of a Bayraktar TB2 drone before being launched into Afrin.

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