Turkey fighter jet downs Syrian warplane over Idlib: Monitor

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Mar 03, 2020 04:12 PM IST

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The Syrian state news agency SANA said the Syrian warplane was ‘targeted’, and this is the third such downing in the past three days.

A Turkish fighter jet downed a Syrian regime warplane over the northwestern Idlib province on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said, in the third such downing in three days.

A displaced Syrian woman collects belongings from a school that was reportedly targeted in a regime forces' air strike in Syria's northwestern Idlib province.(AFP)

Syrian state news agency SANA said the plane was “targeted”, after two others were shot down on Sunday in a Turkish operation against Russia-backed regime forces in the Idlib region.

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