WASHINGTON—U.S. and Russian officials are each accusing the other side of being the aggressor in a dangerous encounter between a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone and a Russian fighter jet over Syria on July 26.
It’s the sixth reported incident this month, and the second in the past 24 hours, in which the United States has claimed Russian warplanes have flown dangerously close to American manned and unmanned aircraft, putting crews and the planes at risk and raising questions as to what the U.S. may need to do in response.
