Israel Shoots Down Syrian Fighter Plane With Patriot Missiles

A Sukhoi fighter plane. (By Alex Beltyukov [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] via Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli military forces shot down a Syrian warplane near the border of Israel and Syria, with Israel saying that the jet went into its airspace. Syria said that the jet was fired upon as it took part in operations against “terrorists.”

Syrian state-run SANA said Israel, which it described as the “enemy,” “targeted one of our warplanes raiding terrorist gatherings in Saida area on the outskirts of Wadi al-Yarmouk in the Syrian airspace.”