(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Syrian opposition fighters shot down on Monday a warplane near Hama military airport, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Islamic brigades' fighters, Al-Nusra Front and other forces Monday evening renewed their missile strikes on the airport, the SOHR said in a statement, adding that no reports on causalities have been received so far.
The military airport is located on the road from Mharda to Hama, just outside of the provincial capital.
The attack on the airport follows the rebels' capture of two checkpoints along the supply line between the town of Mharda, a center of the regime's military operations in the area, and Hama city ten days ago. A colonel, loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad, was killed in clashes between regime's forces and opposition fighters, while a fighter of Islamic brigades was killed in the same clashes. Syrian warplanes have bombarded positions of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the northern governorate of Raqqa as the self-declared jihadists close in on the last army base in the region. At least 31 fighters from the Islamic State on Sunday were killed and dozens wounded in the air strikes that hit Raqqa city and the surrounding areas, the SOHR said.
Syrian official sources denied that US warplanes hit positions of the ISIL in Raqqa.
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