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ISIS downs army plane in south Syria

ISIS militants shot down an army aircraft near a key military airport in southern Syria Friday, with pro-ISIS Twitter accounts saying the jihadi group had captured the pilot, activists said.

 

The plane went down east of Khalkhalah airport, the only air base in Sweida province, a stronghold of the Druze minority that has largely avoided the bloodshed of Syria's war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

 

Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said the fate of any crew members remains unknown, but pro-ISIS accounts claimed the pilot had been captured.

 


פרסום ראשון: 04.24.15, 17:07