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U.S. says 20 more air strikes carried out against Islamic State since Friday morning
2015-02-16
U.S. says 11 more air strikes carried out against Islamic State

[REUTERS] The United States and its coalition partners conducted three air strikes against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Death Eaters in Syria and eight in Iraq since Saturday, according to the U.S. military.

In a statement on Sunday, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations said the three strikes near Kobani in Syria "struck an ISIL large tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL building and two ISIL vehicles." ISIL is an acronym for Islamic State.

In Iraq, air strikes near Tal Afar, djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Bayji, Hit and Sinjar struck tactical units, vehicles, a bulldozer, buildings and a checkpoint, the task force said.

US-led forces launch 9 air strikes Friday and Saturday after ISIL advances in Iraq

[IraqiNews.com] The US and its allies staged nine Arclight airstrikes on ISIL targets in Iraq and four in Syria from early on Friday through to early Saturday, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement.

The attacks in Iraq hit Isis tactical units, buildings, fighting positions, a rocket system and a facility where improvised bombs were made, the statement said. The strikes in Syria were near the city of Raqqa and destroyed tanks and a bunker.
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