(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels shot down a fighter jet in Syria's Hama province on Wednesday, local activists and monitoring group said, as Russia warplanes continued air strikes across Syria.
The Syrian MiG-23 was downed near the village of Kafr Nabouda in northern Hama, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Activists say rebels have used an anti-craft missile, a such development rises regime concerns.
On Tuesday, rebels seized Tal Othman military base and the nearby village of al Janabra in the western countryside of Hama, activist Mustafa Abu Arab said. The strategic hill was regime's first defense line to secure loyal villages in al Ghab plain.
In central Syrian town of Al-Qaryatain, airstrikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes on the ISIS-held town killed 23 civilians, the Observatory said Wednesday.
Russian warplanes have carried out more than 30 raids on ISIS's de facto Syrian capital Raqqa on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people in second aerial attack in 24 hours, Reuters said.
Russia's air force has flown 1,631 sorties and struck 2,084 militant targets since the start of its airstrikes campaign in Syria, Russian news agencies cited the defense ministry as saying Tuesday.
According to the Observatory, the first month of Russian strikes killed nearly 600 people, two-thirds of them fighters.
At least 200,000 people have been displaced since early October in Aleppo, Homs, Hama and Idlib, according to the United Nations.
More than 250,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began with anti-government protests in March 2011.
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