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Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/syria-groups-anti-aircraft-missiles-report-article-1.1908459

Report: Armed Groups in Syria Have Several Hundred Anti-Aircraft Missiles

(AP-New York Daily News) Armed groups in Syria have several hundred portable anti-aircraft missiles that could easily be diverted to extremists and used to destroy commercial planes, according to a report Tuesday by the Small Arms Survey, a respected Switzerland-based organization. On Monday the U.S. FAA banned all U.S. airlines flights in Syrian airspace, saying that armed extremists in Syria are "known to be equipped with a variety of anti-aircraft weapons which have the capability to threaten civilian aircraft."

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