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URGENT: Former Iraqi air force pilots training ISIS to use seized fighter jets in battle

Member of ISIS sitting in captured Russian Sukhoi fighter jet in Tabaqa Airport in Raqqa, Syria.
Member of ISIS sitting in captured Russian Sukhoi fighter jet in Tabaqa Airport in Raqqa, Syria.

(IraqiNews.com) On Friday international news agencies have quoted witnesses that the organization of the so-called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has seized at least three operational fighter jets.

The sources said that “former Iraqi air force pilots in the army are training the organization ISIS on how to use them.”

Those agencies quoted activists in the Syrian opposition as saying that “the organization ISIS will use those fighter planes after they had been seized from an airport in the province of Aleppo (northern Syria).”

The eyewitnesses said that “they saw the fighter jets taking off from the airport repeatedly.”

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