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More ISIL sites in Syria hit by US air raids
Activists say oil facilities held by ISIL in northern
Syria targeted by US-led coalition for second day.
Warplanes from the US-led coalition have
bombed oil installations and other facilities in
territory controlled by the Islamic State in Iraq
and the Levant (ISIL) in eastern Syria for a second
consecutive day, activists said.
The strikes reportedly hit two oil areas in Deir ez-
Zour province on Friday, a day after the US and its
Arab allies attacked a dozen makeshift oil
producing facilities in the same area near Syria's
border with Iraq.
The US Central Command said three air strikes
south and southeast of Deir ez-Zour destroyed
four ISIL tanks and damaged another.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights said the strikes overnight and early on
Friday hit the Tink oil field as well as the
Qouriyeh oil-producing area in Deir ez-Zour.
The raids aim to cripple one of ISIL's primary
sources of cash - black market oil sales that the US
says earn up to $2m a day.
The Observatory and another activist collective,
the Local Coordination Committees, also reported
strikes on the town of Mayadeen, including on
the ISIL headquarters.
Deir ez-Zour, which borders Iraq, is almost
entirely controlled by ISIL and was a major oil-
producing province before Syria's conflict began
more than three years ago.
Strikes also hit areas southeast of the city of
Hasakah, close to the Iraqi border. They targeted
ISIL, al-Qaeda's Syrian branch the Nusra Front
and other fighters, the Observatory said.
Fighters hiding
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, following the conflict
from neighbouring Beirut, said the strikes on ISIL
would undoubtedly weaken the group, which
controls large parts of Syria and Iraq.
"They'll be on the defensive, they won't be able to
expand the territory they control. It will be hard
for fighters to move from one area to another,
especially in large convoys.
"But now ISIL is adapting to the air strikes, hiding
among civilians. It will be very hard to defeat the
group."
Reports from the ground said dozens of fighters,
from ISIL and the Nusra Front, as well as some
civilians, have been killed since the US-led
coalition began its bombing campaign in Syria
early on Tuesday.
Hundreds of civilians and soldiers have been
killed in ISIL's fight to take control of territory in
the east and north of Syria and in neighbouring
Iraq. The widely-feared group has attacked
minorities in both countries and drawn
international outrage after the beheading of two
American journalists and a British aid worker.
But the foreign intervention has been met with
mixed reactions among Syrians, with the political
opposition saying the US and its allies should also
strike the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Protests against the strikes were held in several
towns on Friday, some in support of the Nusra
Front.
The air campaign is led by the US, supported by
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and
France.
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