NEW YORK TIMES: Militants from the Islamic State extremist group have shot down a fighter jet over Syria deployed by the United States-led coalition that is battling the group and have captured a pilot from an Arab country, a Syrian monitoring organization said on Wednesday.
The monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the militants had fired an antiaircraft missile to bring down the jet near Raqqa, in northern Syria. It did not give the pilot’s name or nationality.
If confirmed, the strike and capture would signal the harshest blow yet to the coalition and could affect the resolve of the Arab nations that have joined the United States in its air campaign to weaken the Islamic State — also known as ISIS or ISIL — in Iraq and Syria… (more)
EDITOR: The new danger in flying missions could argue for introduction of a hundred thousand ground troops. And who provided the missles to ISIS?
