Syrian warplane downed during operation against Islamic State: army

BEIRUT Islamic State shot down a Syrian military plane in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, the Islamic State-affiliated news agency Amaq said on Sunday.

"A Syrian warplane belonging to the Syrian regime was brought down when targeted by fighters from the Islamic State in the city of Deir al-Zor," Amaq said in an online statement.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict now in its sixth year, said the pilot of the MIG Syrian warplane was killed.

(Reporting by Lisa Barrington in Beirut and Mohamed el Sherif in Cairo; Editing by Toby Chopra)




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