September 18, 2016•Update: September 19, 2016
By Ahmed Ghanem
ISTANBUL
The Daesh group on Sunday claimed to have shot down a Syrian regime warplane in eastern Syria.
In an online statement, the Daesh-affiliated Amaq news agency said the plane was shot down by Daesh militants in the eastern Deir al-Zor province.
The official SANA news agency said the aircraft went down during a combat operation against Daesh and the pilot had died.
More than 60 regime soldiers were reportedly killed and scores injured in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike on regime forces in Deir al-Zor.
Syria has suffered unspeakable losses over the last five years since Bashar al-Assad's government violently suppressed a peaceful protest against his rule, unleashing a downward spiral of violence that killed hundreds of thousands of victims and displaced millions.
