ANKARA 

Iran announced that it has shot down 13 advanced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) belonging to the US and Israel since Friday, according to an official statement.

In a statement released by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Iranian authorities said the drones were intercepted in multiple regions across the country.

“Thirteen unmanned aerial vehicles of the MQ-9, Hermes and Orbiter types were shot down by missile and artillery systems in Iran's northwestern, western, and southern regions, as well as in Isfahan, Kerman and Tehran,” the statement said.

*Writing by Gizem Nisa Demir in Istanbul