US-led airstrikes hit Islamic State held oil refinery
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Activists say airstrikes by a US-led coalition hit a Syrian oil refinery held by the Islamic State group.
Activists say the strikes late Sunday night targeted a refinery near the Turkish-Syrian border outside the town of Tel Abyad.
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The Syrian activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently posted a video purporting to depict the strikes, showing an enormous fireball. The video could not be immediately verified, though it corresponded with Associated Press reporting about the attack.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the strikes, estimating they killed about 30 people. The other group offered no casualty figure.
The Islamic State group, which controls about a third of Syria and Iraq, sells black-market oil to fund its conquests. The US-led coalition did not immediately report the strike.
Source:: Indian Express
