"We continue to operate, making some adjustments for prudent measures", Davis said on June 20.
An armed Shaheed-129 UAV "displayed hostile intent and advanced on Coalition forces" at 12:30 am local time on Tuesday, the coalition said in a statement.
The incident closely followed Sunday's USA downing of a piloted Syrian army jet in the southern Raqqa countryside after it dropped bombs near us -backed forces.
"In an email to NPR, Australia's Department of Defense says it will make a decision on rejoining the U.S-led air campaign in due course", NPR's Alison Meuse reports from Beirut.
On Sunday, the USA shot down a Syrian plane that had dropped bombs near its ground-partnered Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) south of Tabqa about two hours after SDF fighters were wounded in an earlier attack by pro-Syrian regime forces in Ja'Din.
Suspension is "precautionary measure" amid rising tensions between Russian Federation and United States over downing of a Syrian jet.
The U.S. -led military coalition said in a statement that the shoot down occurred where another pro-regime drone dropped munitions on June 8 before it was also shot down.
U.S. support of anti-Islamic State militias such as the ones in At Tanf and the Syrian Democratic Forces has increasingly put it into direct conflict with Syria and its allies Russia, Iran, and Shiite militias.
The incident prompted a harsh response from Russia, Assad's chief worldwide ally, which threatened to cut channels with the us created to prevent their air forces from inadvertently targeting one another.
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"The F-15E intercepted the armed UAV after it was observed advancing on the Coalition position".
The coalition forces "were manning an established combat outpost to the northeast" of the base when the drone flew in, a Pentagon statement said.
Following Sunday's incident, Russia threatened that US -led coalition aircraft will be "followed by Russian ground-based air defense and air defense aircraft as air targets" if they are operating in Syrian airspace west of the Euphrates River while while Russia is on combat missions.
US -backed Syrian militias closed in on Islamic State's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa on Wednesday, taking territory on the south bank of the Euphrates River with the aim of encircling the city, a militia spokesman told Reuters. In late 2015, it extended air operations into Syria on US' request.
Australia said it would temporarily halt air operations over Syria after the plane was downed.
An Iranian drone was shot down over southern Syria by a US F-15 fighter jet on Tuesday, reported Washington Post.
Russia also stopped using a key "de-confliction" communication channel set up to avoid conflict between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria.
A USA senator has warned against the United States' measures in Syria, which is pushing Washington "closer and closer" to a military conflict with Iran and Russian Federation, describing the move as "another mistake on the scope of the Iraq War". "That would be another mistake on the scope of the Iraq War".
The growing tensions come as the coalition supports the Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting to take Raqa from IS.
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