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Syrian opposition fighters on Thursday shot down two military warplanes over the northwestern province of Idlib, said a monitoring group.
Both jets were hit with fire from heavy machineguns while the air force was carrying out a series of raids in the area, much of which is under the control of the opposition fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Rebels seized a military airport in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing, injuring and capturing a total of around 40 troops, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“The remainder of the troops pulled out from the airport, leaving behind several warplanes and large amounts of ammunition,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Eight regime soldiers and fighters were killed in clashes with the Kurdish Popular Protection Units in Aleppo last Friday, a rights group reported.
The YPG, which is affiliated to the Democratic Union (PYD) killed three regular Syrian soldiers and five members of the pro-regime militia, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Syrian troops and rebels clashed again Thursday in the capital Damascus, a day after what activists described as the heaviest fighting in months in President Bashar Assad’s seat of power.
The clashes were inching closer to the heart of the city, but still were focused in outlying neighborhoods such as Qaboun, Jobar and Zamalka in the northeast and the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the south, according to the activist groups Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Authorities.
Syria’s state television says the Israeli regime is deploying military forces on the Syrian border.
The move comes a day after an Israeli airstrike reportedly targeted a defense research center near the Syrian capital city of Damascus, killing two people and injuring five others.