Syrian Warplane Shot Down by I. S.

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A group monitoring the civil war said said, Islamic State fighters have shot down a Syrian war plane using anti-aircraft guns on Tuesday,  which is the first time the group has shot down a military jet since declaring its cross-border caliphate in June.

According to a resident, the plane came down outside Islamic State’s stronghold of Raqqa city, 400 km (250 miles) northeast of Damascus, during air strikes on territory controlled by the group.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group which gathers information from a network of activists on the ground, reported five air raids on Raqqa on Tuesday. Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the organization, cited sources close to Islamic State as saying the plane had been shot down.

The Syrian air force has been bombing Islamic State-controlled territory in the provinces of Raqqa and Deir al-Zor on a near-daily basis since the group seized the Iraqi city of Mosul in June.

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