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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Syrian army plane downed near Damascus say rebels
Rebels say they hit the aircraft with anti-aircraft machine guns which had been delivered to them in recent weeks by the US
Syrian air force Russian-made MiG-21
plane that a pilot landed within the King Hussein military base in
Mafraq in northern Jordan on 21 June 2012 (AFP)
Two Syrian rebels and a war monitor said a Syrian military plane had
come down about 50km east of Damascus on Monday in rebel-held territory
near a frontline with the government-held area.
"We have brought down a Syrian jet in Tel Dakwa area in rural Damasus
and we are searching for the pilot," Saad al-Haj, spokesman for
Western-backed Jaish Osoud Al Sharqiya rebel group, told Reuters. Osoud
Al Sharqiya is one of the main groups fighting in the south-east Syrian
desert, known as the Badia.
Footage of Syrian Jet that has been Shot down by US Backed FSA Rebel Component Jaysh Usood al-Sharqiya in East Qalamoun Desert Region.#Syria pic.twitter.com/DUdvQsG8JX— Conflicts Zone (@Conflictszone) 5 June 2017
Footage of Syrian Jet that has been Shot down by US Backed FSA Rebel
Component Jaysh Usood al-Sharqiya in East Qalamoun Desert Region.#Syria
Rebels said they hit the aircraft with heavy, anti-aircraft machine guns
which had been delivered to them in recent weeks by the United States.
Pictures of what appeared to be the human remains of the pilot have been
shared on opposition social media sites alongside pictures of aircraft
wreckage said to be that of the warplane.
Another rebel official, Said Seif from the Western-vetted Ahmed Abdo
Martyrs group that operates in the area, said the plane came down in an
area 15 km east of Bir Qasab between Tal Dakwa and Dumair airport.
Seif said rebels hit the aircraft with anti-aircraft guns which had been
delivered to them by the US and its allies to fend off a new push into
south-east Syria by the government and allied Iran-backed militias.
The Syrian military could not be reached for comment at the time of writing.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said a
plane was shot down by a rebel group in the area but it could not
confirm if the pilot was dead or alive.
Reuters could not independently confirm reports of the downed plane.
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