U.S. shoots down drone close to Iraqi-Syrian border: statement

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Phil StewartAMMAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it had shot down an armed, Iranian-made drone that had been bearing down on its forces near a garrison in Syria's southeast on Tuesday, in the latest sign of increasingly frequent confrontation with Damascus and its allies.The incident closely followed Sunday's U.S. downing of apiloted Syrian army jet in the southern Raqqa countryside after it dropped bombs near U.S.-backed forces.In the latest incident, t