Syrian rebels down helicopter gunship: NGO
BEIRUT - Agence France-Presse
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Syrian rebels downed a helicopter gunship otoday in eastern Damascus province, home to some of the rebel Free Syrian Army's fiercest and best organised battalions, a monitoring group said."It emerged that the rebels downed a helicopter gunship over the town of Saqba in the Eastern Ghuta area," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Initially, the Observatory had reported that the aircraft was a fighter jet.