Washington
(AFP) - Warplanes from the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State
group hit dozens of jihadist vehicles and bases, including an
"electronic warfare garrison," in four days of strikes, the US military
said Monday.
US-led strikes hit IS garrison, 'electronic warfare' unit
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This photo released by the US
Navy on October 4, 2014, shows a US Navy F-18E Super Hornet supporting
operations against the Islamic State (AFP Photo/Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel)
Washington (AFP) -
Warplanes from the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State group hit
dozens of jihadist vehicles and bases, including an "electronic warfare
garrison," in four days of strikes, the US military said Monday.
Between
November 28 and December 1, coalition aircraft and drones bombed targets
in Iraq and Syria, where they hit militants besieging the town of
Kobane and IS headquarters in Raqa.
In Raqa, they struck a tank,
14 other vehicles, a jihadist base and what they described as an
electronic warfare garrison and a separate "jamming system," US Central
Command said.
Kobane, on Syria's northern border with Turkey, is
in the grip of an intense battle between Kurdish militia fighters and IS
jihadists.
This was the scene
of 17 of the 27 strikes conducted in Syria over the four-day reporting
period, and the US military said seven IS units, two buildings, three
tanks and four vehicles were hit.
Separately,
a strike targeted the so-called "Khorasan Group," a network of veteran
Al-Qaeda operatives, near Aleppo. No damage report or casualty estimate
was given for this strike.
In
Iraq, a further 28 strikes hit IS vehicles, artillery, bases and
fighting positions near the towns of Mosul, Hit, Tal Afar, Tikrit and
Ramadi.
In Syria, the US-led
campaign is supported by planes and pilots from Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi
Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
In Iraq, the coalition is joined by Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France and the Netherlands.
The
strikes began in Iraq in August after the Islamic State group captured
Mosul and launched a lightning offensive that seized swathes of the
country's western desert, threating the approaches to Baghdad.
The
campaign was later extended to Syria after President Barack Obama vowed
to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the IS threat through strikes and
increased support for Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
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