Israel downs Syrian warplane over Golan
Israel’s military said that it shot down a Syrian warplane Tuesday after the aircraft strayed more than half-mile into airspace Israel controls over the Golan Heights.
Military experts in Israel said that this was the first time in nearly 40 years that Israel downed a Syrian jet, although a Syrian drone that entered Israeli-occupied territory last month was also shot down.
It also reflects how the Golan — captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war — is increasingly drawn into the tensions in Syria, including the more than three-year-old civil war and the growing reach of Islamist militants.
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