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Idlib is the last major battleground between forces loyal to Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad and rebel and extremist forces in the region, some of whom are backed by Turkey.
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The offensive has intensified the humanitarian crisis of Syria's brutal nine-year civil war with close to one million people fleeing the region in the dead of winter this year.
This would not be the first instance of a downed US Reaper drone in the Middle East.In August 2019, Yemen's Houthis shot down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone. Similarly, in June that year, the US said a MQ-9 Reaper was shot down by the Houthi rebels.
The shootdowns came as the US has waged a long campaign of drone strikes in Yemen targeting suspected members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which Washington considers the most-dangerous offshoot of the extremist group.