ISIS downs warplane over Syria, claims capture of Jordanian pilot
ISIS shot down a warplane from the US-led coalition over northern Syria Wednesday, an activist group said, with the jihadists claiming to have captured a Jordanian pilot, AFP reported.
"We have confirmed reports that ISIS members took a [non-Syrian] Arab pilot prisoner after shooting his plane down with an anti-aircraft missile near Raqqa city," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The ISIS branch in Raqa published photographs on jihadist websites purporting to show its fighters holding the captured pilot, with a caption identifying him as Jordanian and giving his name.
Several photographs were released, including one showing the pilot, wearing only a white shirt, being carried from a body of water by four men.
Another showed him on land, surrounded by about a dozen armed men.
The jihadists claimed to have shot down the warplane with a heat-seeking missile.