Col. Steve Warren during a news conference at the US Embassy in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 1. REUTERS/Khalid Mohammed
US operations in Syria and Iraq are continuing "as planned," Army Col. Steve Warren said Tuesday, hours after Turkey reportedly shot down a Russian warplane.
"This is an incident between the Russian and the Turkish governments. It is not an issue that involves the combined joint task force or Operation Inherent Resolve," Warren said at a Pentagon briefing from Baghdad, using the name for the US military operation against the Islamic State group, which is also known as ISIS or ISIL.
"Our combat operations against ISIL continue as planned, and we are striking in both Iraq and Syria," added Warren, a spokesman for the US-led military campaign against the group.
Warren later reaffirmed that the US was not involved in the downing of the plane.
WNU Editor: CENTCOM has already posted the strikes that they have done today .... Nov. 24: Military airstrikes continue against ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq (CENTCOM) .... but we do not know if they were done before the Russian - Turkish incident, or after. I will double check tomorrow to see if the U.S. is continuing their air-strikes. On a side note ... it is clear from the above Pentagon's spokesman's remarks that the U.S. does not want to be drawn into this Russian - Turkish dispute.
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