A Syrian helicopter shot down by rebels, says the opposition.<br/> <br />Reuters cannot independently verify the video, but footage posted online Monday purports to show rebels downing the aircraft over Menagh airport, near Aleppo.<br/> <br />And this is what they may have used to bring it down.<br/> <br />A rebel fighter from Aleppo's air defense battalion, which claimed responsibility for the attack, says it's a thermal rocket captured from Assad forces.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) FREE SYRIA ARMY FIGHTER, SAYING:<br/> <br />"We have managed to surround Aleppo's Menagh airport for two months and today we downed a helicopter by a thermal rocket. And we will continue to impose a no-fly zone above Menagh airport until we take control of it."<br/> <br />More footage also purports to show shelling in the city of Idlib, near Aleppo, and in a suburb of the capitol Damascus.<br/> <br />The uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, now a civil war, has neared the two-year mark, leaving an estimated 70,000 dead.
