US-led coalition air strikes hit IS targets in Syria, Iraq

Coalition forces struck six IS targets in Syria and another 12 in Iraq the US military said Thursday.

In Syria, the airstrikes hit around Kobani while in Iraq they focused on Ayn Al Asad, Ar Rutbah, Mosul, Sinjar and Tal Afar.

Kurdish fighters killed 22 militants around Kobane Thursday, days after recapturing the Syrian town, but the IS still controls hundreds of villages in the area, a monitor said.

“Nineteen IS members were killed in fighting against the (Kurdish) People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the hills surrounding Manaz to the west of Kobane,” said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman.

“Another three militants died in fighting around villages to the east of Kobane, while the YPG also took one IS member prisoner,” he told AFP.

“Another 350 villages remain under IS control,” he said, referring to settlements in the area around Kobane.

 

 

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