contractors. the u.s. struck back with a massive round of air strikes last week after coming under attack by a battalion size pro syria unit that many believed contained russian fighter. in addition, we just learned over the weekend, u.s. forces came under attack for a second time. in response, a u.s. drone destroyed a russian made t-72 tank in the same part of eastern syria where that u.s. base came under attack last thursday. today mattis downplayed the drone strike. this could be a local couple of guys doing something. i don t want to dignify it as a big attack, okay? it wasn t. it s still something we re keeping an eye on. it s in the back of our ground right now. reporter: mattis would not confirm russians had been killed in either incident. mike pompeo was asked about the
all right. here we go. welcome to the second hour, everyone, a fox news alert coming your way. the government now confirms the u.s. war plane has been is now down in libya. the crew is safe. rebels helped rescue the pilot. the f-15 eagle had mechanical problems, we understand. this is forces loyal to muammar qaddafi are on the attack this morning. yep, opening fire on rebel towns across libya and at least three. this comes as air strikes continue. rick leventhal is living through it all outside of the city, that s my best shot at it, rick. sorry. that s in libya. we know that for sure. rick nice try! how are you? we ll get there for a minute. we re on the highway, we found yet another soviet built t-72 tank that was destroyed by a nato fighter jet. we believe it happened about the same time the other vehicles that we saw destroyed sunday.