US-led airstrikes hit 4 Syrian provinces

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-EXCITE

By RYAN LUCAS

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-led coalition strikes targeted Islamic State group positions overnight across in northern and eastern Syria, including one that hit a grain silo and reportedly killed civilians, activists said Monday.

Washington and its Arab allies opened their air assault against the extremist group last week, going after its military facilities, training camps, heavy weapons and oil installations. The campaign expands upon the airstrikes the United States has been conducting against the militants in Iraq since early August.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said coalition forces hit Islamic State group facilities overnight in Aleppo, Raqqa, Hassakeh and Deir el-Zour provinces. It said there were casualties, including civilians, but that it did not have concrete figures.

One of the strikes hit a grain silo in the extremist-held town of Manbij in Aleppo province, setting it ablaze, the Observatory and the Aleppo Media Center activist group said. Another activist collective, the Local Coordination Committees, also reported what it said were coalition air raids on Manbij.

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Turkish Kurds watch clashes between Syrian Kurdish fighters and militants of the Islamic State close to Turkey-Syria border near Suruc, Turkey, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014. (AP Photo)


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[warrant46]

1. One of the strikes hit a grain silo in the extremist-held town of Manbij

More Mud Huts blasted too

God I feel safe

USA USA USA !!

[groundloop]

2. Someone should mail out monthly 'invoices' to demonstrate the cost of war

Mail every taxpayer an 'invoice' showing what their share of the military budget is each and every month (and include in that the cost to care for our veterans). I bet if people realized what it costs to wage war that they'd at least think a little before supporting war after war.

[candelista]

3. This is a major assault (revised).

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/09/23/obama-scores-coalition-victory-with-arab-strikes/gV456QnSeLoybn1dLPlygK/story.html

[flamingdem]

4. This is from Sept. 22 by the way

today's map might be similar but the article is older and airstrikes mentioned are in Syria.

[candelista]

5. Thanks. Fixed. nt

[flamingdem]

6. Wow, they really went after the oil wells

Good strategy to destroy their financing. A no brainer. No money means no paychecks for fighters. Sadly a lot of fighters are there for employment.

[cosmicone]

7. Now, give death penalty to those from the West

who went to fight for ISIS.

They are just as guilty if not even more so because they should have known better than the poor peasants devoid of knowledge in the ME.

[uhnope]

8. and death penalty for Russian terrorists & mercenaries who traveled to Ukraine to wage war?

Or is it only for those from the "West"?

[jamzrockz]

9. One group went to protect

civilians who democratically voted to separate themselves from a coup govt. They only defended areas that supported them and did not try to advance towards opposition capital. The other type of rebels occupied areas that opposed them, they beheaded and ate the hearts from captured soldiers, they imposed fundamentalist Islamic laws on the people they occupied, killed civilians who opposed their rule and their goal was toppling the central govt and to liberate people who did not want to be liberated.

One group I have some respect for, the other I wish the worst kind of death on.

[uhnope]

10. I respect that yr view may be sincere but it is naive and incorrect

Falling under Russian control will mean the loss of democracy and freedom we have seen in Russia for the last 2 decades. Putin did not send troops to protect anything but his fantasies of "New Russia" and great dictatorial control. While there is no direct comparison between ISIS and Putin's regime, in the former dissidents get beheaded, in the latter they get assassinated by other means

[cosmicone]

11. +1,000,000

Equating Islamic terrorists with Russians is the height of absurdity.