Syrian rebels shoot down military warplanes

February 15, 2013 01:56

Al Jazeera: Syrian rebels have shot down two military warplanes over the northwestern province of Idlib, a monitoring group has said.Both jets were hit with fire from heavy machineguns while the air force was carrying out a series of raids in the area, much of which is under the control of the rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday.

The opposition fighters trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad also captured the town of Shadadah, near the Jbeysa oil field in hotly contested Hasaka province, according to Rami Abdul-Rahman, head of the Britain-based activist group.The oil field is in an energy-rich area along Syria's border with Iraq.

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