US-led coalition hits Islamic State group in four Syrian provinces
Written by : Mohamed Abdel Fattah
Sep29, 2014
U.S.-led coalition strikes targeted Islamic State group positions overnight across in northern and eastern Syria, killing civilians and wounding militants, a group monitoring the war said on Monday.
Washington and its Arab allies have been carrying out strikes in Iraq against the militant group since last month and in Syria since last week . It aims to destroy the bases and forces of the al-Qaida offshoot that has captured large areas of both countries.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday the strikes hit a grain silo and jihadist sites in Aleppo and Raqqa.
The Observatory said the grain silo was run by civilians, and it appears there were casualties. The report has not been confirmed.
Other strikes are said to have hit the entrance to the country's main gas plant in an apparent warning to Islamic State militants to leave the facility.
The United States has said it wants strikes to target oil facilities held by ISIL to try to stem a source of revenues for the group.
Syria’s army carried out air raids in Aleppo province overnight, targeting areas east of Aleppo city with barrel bombs and other projectiles, the observatory said. It also carried out air strikes in Hama, western Syria.
Forces loyal to Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, have been battling Islamist fighters around Aleppo, which is held by a number of groups in Syria’s civil war.
The US president on Tuesday promised to continue the fight, which he said was vital to the security of his country, the Middle East and the world.
Barack Obama has said that the participation of five Arab nations in air raids against ISIL in Syria "makes it clear to the world this is not America's fight alone".
The countries whose air forces carried out strikes were all Sunni-led states run by hereditary monarchs with longstanding ties to the American military: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Bahrain. Another Gulf monarchy, Qatar, played a supporting role, according to the Pentagon
Islamic State fighters are waging a two-front war in Iraq and Syria, seeking to expand the boundaries of their newly self-declared caliphate, or Islamic state, ruled by strict Islamic law
Last week, Isis launched an offensive against the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, forcing more than 130,000 Syrian Kurds to flee to Turkey,and has fueled a mushrooming humanitarian crisis on the border as some refugees are turned away by the Turkish authorities.
Turkish Kurds have also been flowing into Syria to fight the Islamic State, multiple residents said. At the border, hundreds of cars and herds of sheep and goats were lined up behind the fence.
Sources
http://www.voanews.com/content/more-is-targets-hit-syria/2465780.html
http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/145359/us-led-raids-hit-grain-silos-in-syria-kill-workers
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/29/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idUSKCN0HO0EV20140929
Sep29, 2014
U.S.-led coalition strikes targeted Islamic State group positions overnight across in northern and eastern Syria, killing civilians and wounding militants, a group monitoring the war said on Monday.
Washington and its Arab allies have been carrying out strikes in Iraq against the militant group since last month and in Syria since last week . It aims to destroy the bases and forces of the al-Qaida offshoot that has captured large areas of both countries.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday the strikes hit a grain silo and jihadist sites in Aleppo and Raqqa.
The Observatory said the grain silo was run by civilians, and it appears there were casualties. The report has not been confirmed.
Other strikes are said to have hit the entrance to the country's main gas plant in an apparent warning to Islamic State militants to leave the facility.
The United States has said it wants strikes to target oil facilities held by ISIL to try to stem a source of revenues for the group.
Syria’s army carried out air raids in Aleppo province overnight, targeting areas east of Aleppo city with barrel bombs and other projectiles, the observatory said. It also carried out air strikes in Hama, western Syria.
Forces loyal to Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, have been battling Islamist fighters around Aleppo, which is held by a number of groups in Syria’s civil war.
The US president on Tuesday promised to continue the fight, which he said was vital to the security of his country, the Middle East and the world.
Barack Obama has said that the participation of five Arab nations in air raids against ISIL in Syria "makes it clear to the world this is not America's fight alone".
The countries whose air forces carried out strikes were all Sunni-led states run by hereditary monarchs with longstanding ties to the American military: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Bahrain. Another Gulf monarchy, Qatar, played a supporting role, according to the Pentagon
Islamic State fighters are waging a two-front war in Iraq and Syria, seeking to expand the boundaries of their newly self-declared caliphate, or Islamic state, ruled by strict Islamic law
Last week, Isis launched an offensive against the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, forcing more than 130,000 Syrian Kurds to flee to Turkey,and has fueled a mushrooming humanitarian crisis on the border as some refugees are turned away by the Turkish authorities.
Turkish Kurds have also been flowing into Syria to fight the Islamic State, multiple residents said. At the border, hundreds of cars and herds of sheep and goats were lined up behind the fence.
Sources
http://www.voanews.com/content/more-is-targets-hit-syria/2465780.html
http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/145359/us-led-raids-hit-grain-silos-in-syria-kill-workers
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/29/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idUSKCN0HO0EV20140929
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