US Department of Defense announced late Monday that the first armed reconnaissance (ISR) mission will begin to fly from the Incirlik air base.

US Department of Defense announced late Monday that the first armed reconnaissance (ISR) mission will begin to fly from the Incirlik air base.

Providing information regarding unmanned aerial vehicles flying from Incirlik, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said "it has not been performed in this stage of the attack. But on the weekend begin armed craft" he noted.

He said only unarmed ISR missions had flown from the US Incirlik Air Base in Adana before.

Armed flights between Turkey and the US agreed that "Incirlik started within the framework of the specified agreement".

The US Department of Defense announced on August 3 the coalition airstrikes hit targets of the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group in Hasakah, Raqqa and Kobani in Syria, without specifying from where the coalition planes took off.

The US and Turkey announced earlier last week their intention to provide a safe zone for what they called 'Syrian rebels' and jointly fight ISIL militants, with US warplanes using bases in Turkey, mainly the Incirlik Air Base, to launch air strikes against the group.

US President Barack Obama authorized the use of air power to defend the US-backed group of fighters called the New Syrian Force if it is attacked by the Syrian regime or other groups, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on August 2.