Thirty U. S. - led strikes hit IS in Syria’s Raqqa: monitoring group
ILNA: A U. S. - led coalition carried out at least 30 air strikes in Syria against IS militants in the northern province of Raqqa on Saturday, a monitoring group said; Reuters reported.
The Britain - based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air strikes hit IS positions in the northern outskirts of Raqqa city, a major stronghold of the hardline militants.
The areas hit by the strikes included the ۱۷th Division, a Syrian army base that IS seized in July, the Observatory said.
The U. S. - led coalition began bombing IS in Syria in September. Syria’s nearly four - year - old civil war has continued unabated throughout the country.
Dozens of others were wounded and the death toll was expected to rise because a number were in critical condition, the Observatory said.
Fighting also continued in the Kurdish town of Kobani, northwest of Raqqa on the border with Turkey, where Kurdish defenders have been holding off an assault by IS fighters for more than two months.
At least ۶۲ people have been killed in fighting in Kobani, known as Ayn al - Arab in Arabic, since early on Saturday, the Observatory said.