Nomad Shadow

{{Short description|Classified US military operation involving Turkey}}

Operation Nomad Shadow is the name of a classified United States military operation that may have begun in November 2007 to share intelligence information between the U.S. and the Republic of Turkey. The operation may involve only a few dozen U.S. servicemembers at any one time plus an unknown number of Turkish officials. A U.S. military-affiliated newspaper claimed the operation "reportedly provided Turkey with intelligence on Kurdish separatists ahead of Turkey’s incursion into northern Iraq in December 2007."{{cite news|url=http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=59835|title=DOD expands medal eligibility|work=Stars and Stripes|date=2009-01-07|access-date=2009-01-06}}

U.S. servicemembers who deployed in support of Operation Nomad Shadow may have also had been concurrently attached to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.{{cite news|url=https://www.af.mil/News/story/id/123130096/|title=DOD officials expand eligibility for expeditionary medal|work=Air Force News Service|date=2009-01-05|access-date=2009-01-06|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717105658/http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123130096|archive-date=2012-07-17|url-status=live}}

In 2013 the armed Kurdish guerrilla movement PKK claimed to have shot down a U.S. drone patrolling the Iraq-Turkey border as part of the program.[http://washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-military-drone-surveillance-is-expanding-to-hot-spots-beyond-declared-combat-zones/2013/07/20/0a57fbda-ef1c-11e2-8163-2c7021381a75_story.html "U.S. military drone surveillance is expanding to hot spots beyond declared combat zones."]