MOSCOW, September 24. /TASS/. The US-led coalition’s fighter jets and drones violated Syria’s airspace in the al-Tanf area nine times during the past day, Vadim Kulit, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of the Russian defense ministry), said on Sunday.

"Four pairs of F-16 fighter jets, as well as an MQ-1C multi-role unmanned aerial vehicle violated Syria’s airspace in the al-Tanf area, across which international air routes run, nine times during the day," he said.

According to Kulit, nine violations of the deconfliction protocols of December 9, 2019 linked with the flights by the coalition drones were reported in Syria in the past 24 hours.

Apart from that, in his words, during the day, eight shelling attacks on the positions of government forces from the positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (outlawed in Russia) were reported in the Idlib governorate in the Idlib de-escalation zone. One Syrian soldier was killed and three more were wounded as a result of artillery strikes on the government army.