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Live blog update| Islamic State

Summary

  • UN security council adopts binding resolution to stop the flow of foreign fighters to Syria
  • US planes struck oil refineries in Syria
  • Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 14 militants and five civilians were killed last night in Deir Ezzor and Hassakeh
  • British Prime Minister David Cameron has said UK planes are "poised" to join the action in Syria, with parliament set to be recalled on Friday to debate the issue
  • Barack Obama urges Islamic State supporters "leave the battlefield while they can" at the UN  General Assembly
  • Jordan's King urges action against the "extreme reflections of a great global threat" in IS
    extreme reflections of a great global threat
    Deir ez Zor