Australia
said on Tuesday it was suspending air strikes into Syria following the U.S.
downing of a Syrian military jet on Sunday and Russia's subsequent threat
against
U.S.-led coalition aircraft.
"As a
precautionary measure, Australian Defence Force (ADF) strike operations into
Syria have temporarily ceased," Australia's Department of Defence said in
a statement.
Russia said
on Monday it would treat U.S.-led coalition aircraft flying west of the River
Euphrates in Syria as potential targets and track them with missile systems and
military aircraft, but stopped short of saying it would shoot them down.
Russia made
clear it was changing its military posture in response to the U.S. downing of a
Syrian military jet on Sunday, something Damascus said was the first such
incident since the start of the country's conflict in 2011.
Reuters*
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