IS Now Has an Air Force

Islamic State militants in Syria are training Iraqi pilots who joined the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, Reuters reported citing witnesses.

"They have trainers, Iraqi officers who were pilots before for [former Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein," said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). "People saw the flights. They went up many times from the airport."

The “same resources” have told SOHR activists that the Islamist fighters seized three aircrafts after taking control over the military airports in Aleppo and al Raqqa provinces.

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The jets "flying at a low altitude over the area", which witnesses said defined as MiG 21 or MiG 23 models, were captured from the Syrian military. It was not clear whether or not they were equipped with weaponry.

  RT

So now we can say we only gave them tanks and small arms, while the EVIL RUSSIANS gave them planes.

I suppose we'll have a harder time refuting the long-expressed complaint that we should have taken Saddam's army into our fold rather than summarily dismissing them.