Another Syrian government helicopter shot down over Idlib region

A Syrian government helicopter was downed in a rural area west of Aleppo in Syria's Idlib region on Friday, with conflicting claims over who was responsible. Turkey's state-owned Anadolu news agency said the helicopter was shot down by Turkish-backed rebels while Russia's state-owned Russia Today channel said it was hit by a shoulder-fired missile launched from a Turkish military observation post near the town of Dara Azza. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, blamed the attack on Turkey. It said both pilots...