War on IS summary from overnight

-US President Barack Obama told CBS’ 60 Minutes on Sunday that US intelligence ‘underestimated’ the opportunity that a collapsing Syria would provide for militants like Islamic State and al-Qaeda to regroup and stage a come back

-US-led anti-IS coalition air strikes hit the entrance and prayer area of Coneco, Syria’s largest gas plant which is located in Deir Ezzor, in an apparent warning to IS militants to abandon the premises under their control. Since seizing several oil fields in Syria last year, IS has reportedly been able to smuggle thousands of barrels of crude oil on to the black market to private buyers in Turkey and Iraq. 

-Strikes over Sunday night also hit targets outside Raqqa city, IS’ de facto headquarters, as well as Minbej, east of Aleppo, where IS had gained access to grain silos

-On Sunday, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the head of Al-Nusra Front, Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate, added his voice to fellow Nusra members who spoke out over the weekend and said that if US-led air strikes continue against his group, it will “transfer the battle” to western countries. 

Also: Read more on our War on IS blog from over the weekend.