US-led coalition air strikes on oil refineries run by the Islamic State group in northern Syria killed 30 people, mostly jihadists, a monitoring group said on Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said coalition warplanes launched two strikes Sunday on oil facilities in Raqa province, a stronghold of the extremist group which borders Turkey.
Since September, the coalition has conducted repeated air strikes against IS in Syria, as well as in neighbouring Iraq, where the jihadists have declared an Islamic "caliphate" in areas under their control. The raids have frequently targeted oil facilities run by the jihadists, who according to some estimates earn more than $1 million per day from oil sales.
On Sunday, the coalition also launched strikes against al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front in the north-western province of Idlib. The attacks, which targeted an Al-Nusra Front military base in Atmeh near the Turkish border, killed nine members of the group, the Britain-based Observatory said.
A civilian in Atmeh told AFP that three buildings targeted by the strikes "were completely destroyed". Regime warplanes meanwhile struck a suburb north-east of the Syrian capital on Sunday, killing 13 people, including two children, and wounding more than 50, the Observatory said, updating an earlier toll of 11 dead.
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