The attack happened late yesterday in the Shiite holy city of Samarra, about 95 kilometres north of Baghdad. A senior Defense Ministry official told The Associated Press the Sunni 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. Both spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorised to speak to journalists.
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.
The Islamic State group holds about a third of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in its self-styled caliphate.
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 yesterday 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 Islamic State group governs its territory according to its radical, violent interpretation of Shariah law. It has carried out other mass killings and beheadings, often recorded and posted online.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/followceleb.cms?alias=Militants,Islamic State group militants,IS militants,Iraqi helicopter
Stay updated on the go with The Times of India's mobile apps. Click here to download it for your device.
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
IS militants shoots down Iraqi military helicopter
Dengan url
http://susucanglai.blogspot.com/2014/12/is-militants-shoots-down-iraqi-military.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
IS militants shoots down Iraqi military helicopter
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
IS militants shoots down Iraqi military helicopter
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar