In Syria, ISIS was shot down by the Assad Army

The militants of the Islamic State Organization (prohibited in Russia) shot down the aircraft of the government army. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights.

According to activists who are monitoring the situation in Syria, the plane was shot down in the south of the country near the city of Es Suvid. The fate of the pilot is not reported. According to unconfirmed reports, he managed to escape.

Earlier, the Islamic State announced an attack on a military aircraft in the vicinity of Syrian Rakka. The state affiliation of the aircraft was not specified. Katar's media reported that the aircraft belonged to the Russian VKS, but later the Russian Ministry of Defense called this “information provocation”. The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that all the Air Forces of the Russian Air Force in Syria are whole and are at the Khmeimim air base.

Currently, a truce is in effect on the territory of Syria. The ceasefire agreement was supported by all participants in the armed conflict, except for terrorist groups.