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IS downs Iraqi helicopter
(MENAFN- Arab News) BAGHDAD: Islamic State group militants shot down an Iraqi military helicopter officials said Saturday killing the two pilots onboard and raising fresh concerns about the extremists' ability to attack aircraft amid ongoing US-led coalition airstrikes.
The attack happened late Friday in the Shiite city of Samarra about 95 km north of Baghdad.
A senior Defense Ministry official told The Associated Press the militants used a shoulder-fired rocket launcher to shoot down the EC635 helicopter on the outskirts of the city.
An army official corroborated the information.
The EC635 built by Airbus Helicopters is used for transportation surveillance and combat.
The militants shot down at least two other Iraqi military helicopters near the city of Beiji in October. Some fear the militants may have captured ground-to-air missiles capable of shooting down airplanes when they overran Iraqi and Syrian army bases this summer.
European airlines including Virgin Atlantic KLM and Air France US carrier Delta Air Lines and Dubai-based Emirates changed their commercial flight plans over the summer to avoid Iraqi airspace.
In Syria meanwhile an activist group and a jihadi website said the Islamic State group's police force beheaded four men in the central province of Homs for insulting God.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the four were beheaded Friday in the province's east without elaborating.
A jihadi website said the 'Islamic police in the state of Homs' carried out a court sentence against the four in the presences of onlookers.
Grisly photos posted on the website showed each of the four blindfolded men kneeling their hands tied behind their backs as a masked man in a black uniform hit their necks with a cleaver.
The attack happened late Friday in the Shiite city of Samarra about 95 km north of Baghdad.
A senior Defense Ministry official told The Associated Press the militants used a shoulder-fired rocket launcher to shoot down the EC635 helicopter on the outskirts of the city.
An army official corroborated the information.
The EC635 built by Airbus Helicopters is used for transportation surveillance and combat.
The militants shot down at least two other Iraqi military helicopters near the city of Beiji in October. Some fear the militants may have captured ground-to-air missiles capable of shooting down airplanes when they overran Iraqi and Syrian army bases this summer.
European airlines including Virgin Atlantic KLM and Air France US carrier Delta Air Lines and Dubai-based Emirates changed their commercial flight plans over the summer to avoid Iraqi airspace.
In Syria meanwhile an activist group and a jihadi website said the Islamic State group's police force beheaded four men in the central province of Homs for insulting God.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the four were beheaded Friday in the province's east without elaborating.
A jihadi website said the 'Islamic police in the state of Homs' carried out a court sentence against the four in the presences of onlookers.
Grisly photos posted on the website showed each of the four blindfolded men kneeling their hands tied behind their backs as a masked man in a black uniform hit their necks with a cleaver.
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