Us Led Air Strikes

Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by US led coalition airstrikes launched a fresh attack on ISIS terrorist in northern Iraq in the early hours today, as part of a plan to close in on their De facto capital Mosul, a Kurdish official said.

More than 55,000 people were killed in Syria in 2015, the country's fifth year of war, including over 2,500 children, a monitor said today.

More than 40 per cent of ISIS oil revenue has been affected by US-led strikes over the past month, the top US military officer said in testimony to a congressional committee on Tuesday.

A "British" leader of Islamic State and three other foreign militants have been killed in US led air strikes in northern Syrian town of Raqqa, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on today.

A coalition led by the United States conducted three air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday and bombarded the militant group with 21 strikes in Iraq, according to a statement released on Friday.

Aid to Yemen is being slowed by a Saudi-led coalition which has warned commercial vessels to stay away from areas hit by fighting, a US Navy report said.

Regime troops aided by Russian air strikes fought their fiercest clashes with rebels in weeks today, as US-led coalition forces parachuted ammunition to rebels battling jihadists in northern Syria.

President Vladimir Putin said today that Russia would not deploy ground troops to Syria, where it has been conducting air strikes against what it says are Islamic State targets.

Russia's air strikes in Syria will lead to a further escalation of the conflict, members of the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS) jihadists said today, calling on Moscow to immediately stop targeting Syrian opposition forces.

A coalition led by the United States bombarded Islamic State militants with 22 air strikes in Iraq and three in Syria, according to a statement released today.

Around 95 captives have escaped an Islamic State-run prison in northern Syria, a group monitoring the war said today, saying the escapees included about 30 Kurdish fighters.

Air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition set up to fight Islamic State hit the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in northwest Syria overnight, rebels and residents said on Thursday.

The S&P 500 utility sector, whose dividend yield at 3.9 per cent is more than 100 basis points above the 10-year Treasury yield, led the S&P 500's advance on Friday after concern about the launch of US air strikes on Iraq drove the benchmark bond yield to 14-month lows.

US officials say Israel targeted advanced anti-ship cruise missiles near Syria's principal port city in an air attack carried out earlier this month, The New York Times reported.

Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by US led coalition airstrikes launched a fresh attack on ISIS terrorist in northern Iraq in the early hours today, as part of a plan to close in on their De facto capital Mosul, a Kurdish official said.

More than 55,000 people were killed in Syria in 2015, the country's fifth year of war, including over 2,500 children, a monitor said today.

More than 40 per cent of ISIS oil revenue has been affected by US-led strikes over the past month, the top US military officer said in testimony to a congressional committee on Tuesday.

A "British" leader of Islamic State and three other foreign militants have been killed in US led air strikes in northern Syrian town of Raqqa, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on today.

A coalition led by the United States conducted three air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday and bombarded the militant group with 21 strikes in Iraq, according to a statement released on Friday.

Aid to Yemen is being slowed by a Saudi-led coalition which has warned commercial vessels to stay away from areas hit by fighting, a US Navy report said.

Regime troops aided by Russian air strikes fought their fiercest clashes with rebels in weeks today, as US-led coalition forces parachuted ammunition to rebels battling jihadists in northern Syria.

President Vladimir Putin said today that Russia would not deploy ground troops to Syria, where it has been conducting air strikes against what it says are Islamic State targets.

Russia's air strikes in Syria will lead to a further escalation of the conflict, members of the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS) jihadists said today, calling on Moscow to immediately stop targeting Syrian opposition forces.

A coalition led by the United States bombarded Islamic State militants with 22 air strikes in Iraq and three in Syria, according to a statement released today.

Around 95 captives have escaped an Islamic State-run prison in northern Syria, a group monitoring the war said today, saying the escapees included about 30 Kurdish fighters.

Air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition set up to fight Islamic State hit the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in northwest Syria overnight, rebels and residents said on Thursday.

The S&P 500 utility sector, whose dividend yield at 3.9 per cent is more than 100 basis points above the 10-year Treasury yield, led the S&P 500's advance on Friday after concern about the launch of US air strikes on Iraq drove the benchmark bond yield to 14-month lows.

US officials say Israel targeted advanced anti-ship cruise missiles near Syria's principal port city in an air attack carried out earlier this month, The New York Times reported.