On 3 February 2018, Russian military pilot Roman Filipov's Su-25SM jet was shot down by Tahrir al-Sham and Jaysh al-Nasr militants over the Idlib Governorate, near the town of Maarrat al-Nu'man ( 57 kilometers north of the city of Hama), or the town of Saraqib, according to other sources, with a shoulder launched surface to air missile.