© AP This image posted by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the Islamic State group while captured the… A Jordanian pilot has been captured by Islamic State militants after his plane was downed during coalition air raids in Syria, the Jordanian army says.
An army statement read on state television said: "Jordan holds the group and its supporters responsible for the safety of the pilot and his life."
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group quoted pro-IS activists as saying the plane was brought down near Raqqa city, a stronghold of Islamic State fighters in northern Syria.
The IS in Raqqa published photographs on jihadist websites purporting to show its fighters holding the captured pilot, with a caption identifying him as Jordanian and giving his name.
© Provided by Sky News Several photographs were released, including one showing the pilot, wearing only a white shirt, being carried from water by four men.
Another showed him on land, surrounded by about a dozen armed men.
The militants claimed to have used a heat-seeking missile to bring down the plane.
Jordan is among a number of countries that have joined the US-led alliance carrying out airstrikes against IS after the jihadists seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq.
© AP This image posted by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the Islamic State group with a captured pilot, center, wearing a white…
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