{"id":2248,"date":"2017-06-15T14:49:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2017-06-15T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:49:26","slug":"isis-drones-are-attacking-u-s-troops-and-disrupting-aistrikes-in-al-raqqah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/15\/isis-drones-are-attacking-u-s-troops-and-disrupting-aistrikes-in-al-raqqah\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS DRONES ARE ATTACKING U.S TROOPS AND DISRUPTING AISTRIKES IN AL-RAQQAH"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : The Washington Post<\/p>\n

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Islamic State drones are attacking U.S. Special Operations forces located around the group\u2019s de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria, U.S. officials and Syrian fighters said, sometimes disrupting the ability of American troops to call in airstrikes.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon, in response, is looking to send additional anti-drone equipment and troops\u00a0into Syria, according to one official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss planning.<\/p>\n

Unlike in Mosul, where U.S. forces have deployed an array of drone-stopping\u00a0systems, U.S. troops on the ground in Raqqa are operating with fewer resources and have a limited ability to defend against the small, hard-to-spot aircraft, the official said. The off-the-shelf drones,\u00a0sometimes used in swarms by the extremist group, are often rigged to drop small 40mm grenade-sized munitions with a relatively high degree of accuracy.<\/p>\n

Read more at : https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2017\/06\/14\/isis-drones-are-attacking-u-s-troops-and-disrupting-airstrikes-in-raqqa-officials-say\/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.f9d5fc05319f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : The Washington Post By Thomas Gibbons-Neff Islamic State drones are attacking U.S. Special Operations forces located around the group\u2019s de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria, U.S. officials and Syrian fighters said, sometimes disrupting the ability of American troops to call in airstrikes. The Pentagon, in response, is looking to send additional anti-drone equipment… Continue reading ISIS DRONES ARE ATTACKING U.S TROOPS AND DISRUPTING AISTRIKES IN AL-RAQQAH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[651,499,654,98],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-mosul","tag-pentagon","tag-raqqa","tag-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}