BEIRUT: Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State (IS) in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said yesterday, adding it was the first time the militant group had taken to the air.
The group, which has seized swathes of land in Syria and Iraq, has been flying the planes over the captured Al Jarrah military airport east of Aleppo, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The US Central Command said it was not aware of IS flying jets in Syria. The group has regularly used weaponry captured from the Syrian and Iraqi armies and has overrun several military bases. Agencies
