Live Blog: War against Islamic State
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Live Blog: War against Islamic State
US-led international coalition against IS continues its campaign against militant positions in Syria
- The US-led coalition continued to pound Islamic State positions in Syria
- Al-Qaeda's Syria representative al-Nusra Front, has vowed to step up reprisals against nations participating in the aerial strikes, dubbing them a "war against Islam"
- Coalition strikes hit Islamic State positions near beseiged Kurdish town of Kobane
- The US-led coalition destroyed three makeshift oil refineries in Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria early on Sunday
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The US-led coalition hit Islamic State group targets in Syria's central province of Homs for the first time Saturday as it pressed what Washington says are "near continuous" strikes, a monitoring group said.
The coalition also targeted IS in the town of Minbej, east of second city Aleppo, for the first time, as well as multiple targets in the Islamic State heartland province of Raqqa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.