US Drones in Syrian Sky

US Military officials informed US NBC News channel that "a good number of unmanned US military drones are operating in the skies over Syria to monitor the so-called President Bashar al-Assad's military's crackdown against the opposition."

In comments published on Saturday, the officials claimed that "this surveillance is not in preparation for US military intervention."

Admitting the continuous existence of US military drones in the Syrian sky, the US officials claimed that "the Obama administration hopes to use the overhead visual evidence and intercepts of Syrian government and military communications in an effort to make the case for a widespread international response." According to NBC News, "there has been some discussion among White House, State Department and Pentagon officials about possible humanitarian missions to Syria."
"US officials fear that those missions could not be carried out without endangering those involved and would almost certainly draw the United States into a military role in Syria," the channel claimed.

Source: NBC, edited by moqawama.org