A pilot parachutes from a plane that was shot down, in this still image taken from video footage said to be shot in Al Eiss, Aleppo province, Syria, and uploaded to a social media website on April 5, 2016.
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Syria militants shot down a warplane on Tuesday in an area south of the city of Aleppo where insurgents are battling the Syrian army and allied militias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
A Syrian fighter who appeared in a gruesome video that showed cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it, has been shot dead by rival rebels, a monitoring group said.
Ahmed Al-Seoud, the head of a Free Syrian Army rebel group operating in northwestern Syria, said: “Not one faction in the opposition has surface-to-air missiles”.
The Al-Qaeda affiliate is not party to the ceasefire between government forces and non-jihadist rebels brokered by the U.S. and Russian Federation that has been in place since February 27. “According to preliminary information, it was a Su-22 of Syrian Air Force”, the source said.
However, it has taken a major advantage of its air force against opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But their backers, which include Western and Sunni Muslim regional states, are wary of delivering weapons that could fall into the hands of hardline groups. Reports from the area indicated that the pilot safely ejected before he was captured by Al Nusra Front militants. The Observatory said 14 were killed.
The Syrian military and its allies have continued to launch attacks against them in areas they are said to occupy.
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On Monday, state media reported that insurgents fired dozens of shells at the same neighbourhood, killing eight and wounding more than 20. Though these aren’t directly targeted at al-Qaeda, the group often gets a large portion of such shipments.
