{"id":14743,"date":"2015-11-24T08:47:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T13:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14743"},"modified":"2015-11-24T08:47:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T13:47:42","slug":"russian-search-helicopter-downed-near-syrian-border-by-us-made-anti-tank-missile-rebels-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14743","title":{"rendered":"Russian Search Helicopter Downed Near Syrian Border By US-Made Anti-Tank Missile, Rebels Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian Search Helicopter Downed Near Syrian Border By US-Made Anti-Tank Missile, Rebels Claim<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The news is coming fast and furious out of Syria on Tuesday where, earlier today, Turkey\u00a0decided to shoot down<\/a>\u00a0a Russian Su-24 which Ankara says violated its airspace while conducting operations near the border.<\/p>\n

Russia says the fighter jet was in Syrian airspace for the duration of the mission while Turkey insists that the plane crossed the border and was warned several times before being engaged by two F-16s.<\/p>\n

For his part, Vladimir Putin has\u00a0now called<\/a>\u00a0Turkey a \u201cbackstabber\u201d on the way to accusing Ankara of funding ISIS and derailing the war on terror.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the FSA which is aligned with al-Nusra and is backed and funded by the US and Turkey\u00a0released two videos<\/a>\u00a0depicting its fighters celebrating over the body of a dead Russian pilot.<\/p>\n

Just in case all of that wasn\u2019t enough, the FSA now claims to have shot down a Russian helicopter as it searched for the two missing pilots.<\/p>\n