...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group has shot down a Syrian regime warplane that was bombing opposition-held areas, killing the pilot, a monitoring group said on Friday.
Jihadists published photographs of the plane and the pilot's body on social media sites following the crash on Thursday night in Damascus province that was claimed by IS.
The jihadist group and rebel factions seeking
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
's overthrow have frequently brought down regime warplanes.
"A plane was shot down in the Bir Qasab area of southern Damascus province, leading to its pilot's death," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse that IS used anti-aircraft weapons to shoot down the plane while it was on a bombing raid.
IS members and supporters published several photographs of the strike on their social media accounts.
One photograph published on social media sites showed a plume of black smoke rising over the apparent scene of the attack.
Others showed the pilot's bloodied corpse, as well as his military ID.
One widely shared jihadist tweet read: "The lions of the (IS) caliphate have shot down a (Syrian air force) plane in Bir Qasab... and its pilot was killed, thank God."
IS has
Regime warplanes and helicopters bombard opposition-held areas every day.
Rights groups say most of the casualties from the aerial bombardment are civilians.