US-led coalition launches more air strikes in Syria
The US-led coalition attacking Islamic State in Syria has launched air strikes on its positions including wheat silos in the country's east, activists said today.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attacks targeted compounds for the jihadi group in the central province of Homs and the northern region of Raqqa.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, another activist group, said today's strikes hit the eastern province of Deir el-Zour as well as Raqqa.
The LCC also said the coalition targeted wheat silos west of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour.
The coalition, which began its aerial campaign against Islamic State fighters in Syria early on Tuesday, aims to roll back and ultimately crush the extremist group, which has created a proto-state spanning the Syria-Iraq border.
