Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

top

World

At least 120 jihadists dead in US led Syria strikes: monitor

An image from a jihadist Twitter account claims to show Islamic State militants hanging the Jihad flag at an ancient fort on the Iraq-Syria border/AFP

An image from a jihadist Twitter account claims to show Islamic State militants hanging the Jihad flag at an ancient fort on the Iraq-Syria border/AFP

BEIRUT, September 23- US led air strikes killed at least 120 jihadists in Syria on Tuesday, a monitoring group said.

The dead included more than 70 members of the Islamic State (IS) group in the north and east of Syria, as well as 50 Al Qaeda militants, according to the Britain based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Eight civilians, among them three children, were killed in US strikes in the west of northern Aleppo province, the Observatory said.

The group said at least 300 people were injured in the strikes, about 100 of whom were in serious condition.

About The Author

Comments
Advertisement

More on Capital News