US military convoy came under fire in Syria, patrol untouched - CENTCOM to Sputnik
Washington/Sputnik/uni: A US military convoy in northeastern Syria has come under fire from local Turkey-backed radicals but was not hit, a representative of the Central Command (CENTCOM) of the United States told Sputnik on Monday.
"On November 3, a US patrol in northeast Syria witnessed several artillery attacks, shells landed a kilometer or more from the road it was moving on. The patrol was not touched," the CENTCOM spokesman said.
The spokesman added that US forces retain inalienable right to self-defense, saying that the security of the troops is given priority.
Earlier, Major General Yuri Borenkov, head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria, said at a briefing that the United States had informed the Russian side of the shelling of the American military by militants from nearby town of Tal Tamer.
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