The United States and its allies launched 19 air strikes in Iraq and 11 in Syria on Friday in the coalition campaign against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants, the US military said on Saturday.
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Eighteen strikes in Iraq hit militant targets near seven different cities, including four each near Mosul and Ramadi, it said in a statement.
The coalition made no immediate comment on the report.
The Islamic State’s staying power also raises questions about the administration’s approach to the threat that the group poses to the U.S. and its allies.
The U.S.-led military campaign put the Islamic State group on defense, Killea said, adding, “There is progress”. Those personnel would then transmit the information to surveillance aircraft and strike controllers, making strikes faster and more precise than using overhead surveillance alone.The New Syrian Force fighters crossed the border at Kilis, on the Turkish side, to the Syrian border town of Azaz.
That strike is certainly one of a minimum of 4 ongoing U.S. army investigations into allegations of civilian casualties ensuing from the airstrikes. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of on-the-ground activists, said 173 Syrian civilians have been killed since airstrikes began, including 53 children under the age of 18.
This picture released on July 13, 2015 by the Rased News Network, a Facebook page affiliated with Islamic State militants, shows Islamic State militants fire weapons during a battle against Syrian government forces, in Deir el-Zour province, Syria. The death toll was confirmed by other opposition groups in Syria.
Two movies and a number of other photographs purporting to point out the aftermath of the strikes within the combined Arab and Kurdish village confirmed youngsters allegedly wounded within the airstrikes.
Also on Monday, the leader of Iraq’s Kurdish region, President Massoud Barzani, said Iraqi Kurds must maintain control of areas in northwestern Iraq, including the city of Sinjar, after they are recaptured from IS militants.
Other Kurdish groups, including the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and the People’s Protection Units claim Sinjar as part of their territory.
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Reflecting IS unease, the group has taken exceptional measures against residents of Raqqa the past two weeks, activists say.
