US, allies claim hitting Daesh in Iraq, Syria
The United States and its allies claim to have pummeled Daesh (ISIL) positions in Iraq and Syria on Friday.
The US military said Saturday that the so-called coalition against ISIL hit militant targets in Iraq with 17 strikes and 16 strikes in Syria.
Seven of the strikes in Iraq were near Mosul, in Iraq’s north, hitting five ISIL tactical units and a weapons cache.
Two of the strikes in Syria hit a Daesh-controlled oil and gas separation plant near Raqqa, according to Reuters.
The news comes a day after the American military admitted that US airstrikes on Daesh terrorists in Syria and Iraq left five civilians dead and eight others injured last year.
One bombing on August 24 hit the militant stronghold of Raqqa, killing an ISIL hacker as well as three civilians.
Since late September 2014, the US along with some of its allies has been conducting airstrikes purportedly against Daesh extremists inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or the United Nations.
The air raids in Syria are an extension of the US-led aerial campaign against alleged Daesh positions in Iraq, which started in August last year. Many have criticized the ineffectiveness of the raids.
This is while the US and some of its regional allies, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have lent staunch support to the Takfiri groups there.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy for nearly five years now. More than 260,000 have been killed and millions displaced as a result of the crisis in the war-torn Arab country.
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