(Reuters) Idrees Ali - The U.S.-led coalition sent aircraft to the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka on Thursday to protect American special operation ground forces from attacks by Syrian government jets, a Pentagon official said on Friday. Additional combat air patrols have been sent to the area to protect the Syrian Kurdish ground forces. Faysal Itani, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, said, "If the [Syrian] regime continues bombing in close proximity to U.S. forces, then simply I think the United States will shoot down the regime aircraft."
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