Syrian information minister: IS may have received air defense systems from Turkey, Saudi Arabia.

Syrian information minister: IS may have got air defense systems from Turkey, Saudi Arabia. (Tass).

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi doesn't rule out that militants may start using man-portable air defense systems.

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi has not ruled out that the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization (banned in Russia) may have received man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) from Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

"It is not ruled out that Turkey and Saudi Arabia may have supplied them, and they [militants] will start using them," al-Zoubi told reporters on Friday. Read the full story here.