US Central Command Denies ISIS Claim American Warplane Was Shot Down

Smoke billows from an ISIS terrorist group position following an air strike by Syrian pro-government forces in Aleppo's eastern countryside on Jan. 24, 2016. (George Ourfalian/AFP/Getty Images)

The Pentagon denied claims from the ISIS terrorist group that it shot down an American warplane in Iraq on July 25.

On Monday afternoon, ISIS news agency Amaq said that it shot down a U.S. aircraft near Ayn al-Asad Airbase, a U.S.-Iraqi base located about 100 miles northwest of Baghdad, the capital.

But that claim was shot down by U.S. Central Command in a tweet: “There is no truth to reports of ISIL downing a US aircraft near Anbar.” All American and coalition aircraft were accounted for, it added.