Air strikes, believed to have been carried out by U.S.-led forces, hit Islamic State and other Islamist groups in eastern Syria\u00a0early on Saturday, a monitoring group said.<\/p>\n
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 31 explosions were heard in the province of Raqqa, a stronghold of IS, and casualties were reported.<\/p>\n
The monitoring group said warplanes also struck areas east of the desert town of Palmyra in Homs province.<\/p>\n
The United States is leading a military coalition supported by some Gulf and European nations against Islamic State, a powerful force in\u00a0Syria\u00a0which swept across northern\u00a0Iraq\u00a0in June.<\/p>\n
The campaign has brought Washington back to the battlefield inIraq\u00a0that it left in 2011 and into Syria for the first time after avoiding involvement in a war that began the same year.<\/p>\n
Militant groups in the region, and websites commonly used by supporters, did not immediately mention any attacks on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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