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Danylo Dubchak/Frontliner/Getty Images (LONDON) — NATO fighter jets were scrambled and air defense units put on alert in the early hours of Sunday in response to a major Russian drone and missile strike on Ukraine, the Polish Operational Command said in posts to X. “Due to the activity of the Russian Federation’s long-range aviation, which […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A U.S. fighter jet shot down a Turkish drone armed with air-to-surface missiles that was flying extensively in the area of U.S. ground troops in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon confirmed. An F-16 shot the drone down after a dozen unheeded calls to Turkish military officials stating American forces were […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A U.S. fighter jet shot down a Turkish drone armed with air-to-surface missiles that was flying extensively in the area of U.S. ground troops in northeast Syria on Thursday, according to a U.S. official. An F-16 shot the drone down after a dozen unheeded calls to Turkish military officials stating […]

Murat Kula/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (VILNIUS, Lithuania) — President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Tuesday amid questions about how much the potential sale of U.S. F-16 fighter jets factored into Turkey’s decision to back Sweden’s entry to NATO. Biden thanked Erdogan for his “diplomacy and courage to take that on” […]