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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US-led coalition jets pound IS stronghold in Syria
2015-01-03
[IsraelTimes] Air raids said to be heaviest in area since capture of Jordanian pilot last week

US-led coalition warplanes carried out more than a dozen Arclight airstrikes overnight in and around the 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....
group’s de facto capital in northeastern Syria, three activist groups said Friday.

The air raids on the outskirts of Raqqa were the heaviest coalition strikes on the city along the Euphrates River since Islamic State group turbans captured a Jordanian pilot after his F-16 jet went down near the city on December 24.

The anti-Islamic State activist group called Raqqa Is Silently Being Slaughtered reported on Friday at least 13 coalition strikes. It said the Furoussiyeh area and the Division 17 military base were among the targets hit.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees activist collective also confirmed the air raids.

There was no immediate word on casualties.
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