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Russia strikes back as Syrian rebels take credit for shooting down fighter jet, killing pilot |
2018-02-04 |
[WASHINGTONPOST] Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate grabbed credit Saturday for the downing of a Russian warplane in northern Syria, apparently using a surface-to-air missile to target the aircraft. The pilot was killed after he ejected and exchanged gunfire with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham , or HTS, a powerful rebel alliance that publicly split from al-Qaeda last year, said it had used a shoulder-fired weapon to down the Su-25 fighter jet as it flew low over the opposition-held town of Saraqeb. That claim was echoed by Russia’s Interfax news agency, quoting the Defense Ministry, as well as the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The incident could raise tensions between Russia and ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... , which is monitoring a so-called "de-escalation zone" in the northern province of Idlib as part of an agreement made during Syrian peace talks in the Kazakh capital, Astana. |
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