Us Strike On Isis Fighters

Air strikes since Thursday evening have killed more than 100 people including children and other family members of ISIS fighters in al-Mayadin, a town held by the jihadists near Deir al-Zor in eastern Syria, a war monitor reported.

Crouched behind a cement wall to avoid sniper fire, Libyan pro-government fighters say US air strikes on the ISIS jihadist group in its Sirte bastion have boosted morale.

US-led coalition aircraft waged a series of deadly strikes against ISIS around the city of Falluja on Wednesday, US officials told Reuters, with one citing a preliminary estimate of at least 250 suspected fighters killed and at least 40 vehicles destroyed.

US fighter jets on Friday launched the first strikes against ISIS targets from an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea since the start of the two-year campaign against the militant group, the US Navy said.

The Islamic State is facing an unprecedented cash crunch in its home territory, US counterterrorism officials say, as months of strikes on oil facilities and financial institutions take a deepening toll on the group's ability to pay its fighters or carry out operations.

The ISIS fighters in Libya that were targeted by US warplanes in an overnight strike posed a threat to the United States as well as its interests in the region, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told a news briefing on Friday.

The ISIS terror group has been forced to cut its fighters' pay by up to 50 per cent because US-led air strikes have had a substantial impact on the money it makes from oil, a senior US official said today.

After allowing the United States to use its air space to bomb Islamic State fighters for six months, the Syrian army appears to have imposed a "red line" by shooting down a US drone over territory of critical importance to Damascus.

Air strikes since Thursday evening have killed more than 100 people including children and other family members of ISIS fighters in al-Mayadin, a town held by the jihadists near Deir al-Zor in eastern Syria, a war monitor reported.

Crouched behind a cement wall to avoid sniper fire, Libyan pro-government fighters say US air strikes on the ISIS jihadist group in its Sirte bastion have boosted morale.

US-led coalition aircraft waged a series of deadly strikes against ISIS around the city of Falluja on Wednesday, US officials told Reuters, with one citing a preliminary estimate of at least 250 suspected fighters killed and at least 40 vehicles destroyed.

US fighter jets on Friday launched the first strikes against ISIS targets from an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea since the start of the two-year campaign against the militant group, the US Navy said.

The Islamic State is facing an unprecedented cash crunch in its home territory, US counterterrorism officials say, as months of strikes on oil facilities and financial institutions take a deepening toll on the group's ability to pay its fighters or carry out operations.

The ISIS fighters in Libya that were targeted by US warplanes in an overnight strike posed a threat to the United States as well as its interests in the region, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told a news briefing on Friday.

The ISIS terror group has been forced to cut its fighters' pay by up to 50 per cent because US-led air strikes have had a substantial impact on the money it makes from oil, a senior US official said today.

After allowing the United States to use its air space to bomb Islamic State fighters for six months, the Syrian army appears to have imposed a "red line" by shooting down a US drone over territory of critical importance to Damascus.