Australia has suspended its air strikes into Syria following the US downing of a Syrian military jet on Sunday and Russia's subsequent threat against US-led coalition aircraft. <br/><br/>Local media cited the Australian Defense Department as saying that as a precautionary measure, Australian Defence Force strike operations into Syria have temporarily ceased. On Sunday, a US jet shot down a Syrian Su-22 fighter-bomber near the city of Tabqa.<br/><br/>The Russian Defense Ministry yesterday said it suspended the deconfliction channel with the United States for incident prevention in Syria following the attack. <br/><br/>Additionally, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that any airborne objects west of the Euphrates River would be tracked by Russian ground and air defenses as targets.<br/>