A video belonging to an al-Qaida offshoot, Jund al-Aqsa, purportedly shows a drone landing on Syrian military barracks. In another video , small explosives purportedly dropped by the Iran-backed Shiite militant group Hezbollah target the Sunni militant group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front. Commanders have warned troops to take cover if they see what they might have once dismissed as a surveillance drone, he said. The head of the Airwars project, which tracks the international air war in Iraq, Syria and Libya, said the weaponized drones are clumsy but will scare people. The surveillance drones allowed those groups to collect data on enemy bases, battlefield positioning and weaponry and improve targeting.

Source: Fox News October 12, 2016 07:52 UTC