DTN News - MID EAST HOT SPOTS: Syria Shot Down Turkish F-4 Phantom Fighter Jet

DTN News - MID EAST HOT SPOTS: Syria Shot Down Turkish F-4 Phantom Fighter Jet 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 22, 2012:  Turkey has said it believes that one of its fighter jets has been shot down by Syrian security forces.

The F-4 Phantom disappeared over the Mediterranean, south-west of Hatay province, not far from Syria's coast.

PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said initially that "the other side have expressed regret" but later was unable to confirm what had happened.

After an emergency security meeting, his office said it was understood that Syria had brought the plane down.

In a statement, it said a search for the two crew members was under way involving Turkish and Syrian coast guard ships. Once all the circumstances were established, it added that Turkey would respond decisively

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DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: UN Monitors Speaks With Syrian Soldiers During Visit To Syrian Military Outpost In Village Of Ain Hawr In Rif of Damascus

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: UN Monitors Speaks With Syrian Soldiers During Visit To Syrian Military Outpost In Village Of Ain Hawr In Rif of Damascus

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 7, 2012: UN monitors speaks with Syrian soldiers as they climb on top of an army tank during a visit to a Syrian military outpost in the village of Ain Hawr in the Rif of Damascus on May 6, 2012. 

Three people died in violence overnight in Damascus province, one of them shot dead by regime troops and the other two killed in a blast, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (Photo - Getty)

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DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: UN Moroccan Military Monitors Arrived In Damascus To Oversee Syria Ceasefire Between Assad's Government Forces And Opposition Activists

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: UN Moroccan Military Monitors Arrived In Damascus To Oversee Syria Ceasefire Between Assad's Government Forces And Opposition Activists

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 18, 2012: UN monitors who arrived in Syria earlier this week walking through the lobby of a Damascus hotel on April 17, 2012. 

Moroccan advance team leader Colonel Ahmed Himmiche (front -L) acknowledged that a hard-won UN military observer mission to oversee a Syria ceasefire will be 'difficult.' (Photo - Getty)

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DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Why Syria Won't Get The Libya Treatment From The West

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Why Syria Won't Get The Libya Treatment From The West

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 19, 2012: One year ago, on March 19, 2011, Western leaders, alarmed by the disaster unfolding in Libya, voted in the U.N. Security Council to intervene militarily with "all necessary means," arguing that they could not stand by and watch civilians get massacred. As a result of the U.N. resolution, NATO launched a bombing campaign, led by Britain, France and the U.S., and flew about 10,000 bombing sorties over Libya, helping to obliterate Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship in just seven months.

So, could it happen in Syria? Probably not, according to two reports out on Monday. Both suggest that the Western powers would face significantly bigger challenges in intervening against President Bashar Assad, both politically and militarily, than they did in Libya. Says the British military think tank Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) in a report marking the anniversary of the U.N. vote: "The Libya intervention took place in a singularly unique moment where the international stars, as it were, were aligned in a set of propitious circumstances."

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