(Los Angeles Times) Nabih Bulos and W.J. Hennigan - An armed drone fired on U.S.-backed coalition forces on patrol Thursday outside a small military garrison in southern Syria where American special operations forces train Syrian rebels. The drone, believed to be an Iranian-made Shahed-129, missed the ground forces, and the bomb itself failed to explode, according to U.S. officials. A U.S. F-15 fighter jet, scrambled from a nearby airfield, shot down the drone - the first time an American fighter destroyed an enemy aircraft in air-to-air combat since February 2009.
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