The air strikes were confirmed by the coalition, Raqqa-based activists and the Islamic State group itself.
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Coalition forces “successfully engaged multiple targets” throughout Raqqa – the extremists’ de facto capital – the statement said, destroying ISIS structures and transit routes.
The group added that dozens of others were also wounded.
The city is seen by the militants as the capital of the “caliphate” they declared in Syria and Iraq in 2014.
The London-based monitoring group also said a US drone strike on a Raqqa school on Saturday killed six civilians, including a child.
“The noteworthy airstrikes tonight were executed to deny Daesh the ability to move military capabilities throughout Syria and in to Iraq”, Lt. Col. Thomas Gilleran asserted in a statement, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.
An anti-IS activist network in Raqqa says the airstrikes killed eight civilians, including a 10-year-old child. The report could not be independently confirmed.
The militants recently launched a fresh attempt to seize the regime-held section of the city, which is partly controlled by Syrian Kurdish forces.
Islamic State suicide bombers today blew up an explosive- laden truck near a power plant that serves the northeastern city of Hasaka, the latest attack after their expulsion from most parts of the city, the Syrian army said. The state-run Sana news agency reported casualties and material damage at the plant on the southern edge of the city.
Fighting has raged in Hassakeh since the IS group attacked several southern neighborhoods held by government troops earlier this month.
Tens of thousands of people have fle their homes there to escape the violence.
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In the northern city of Aleppo, fighting continued between government forces and two rebel coalitions seeking to capture regime-held districts in the west of the city.
