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US commandos kill top IS leader in Syria raid

– Air raids kill 48 –

Meanwhile in northwest Syria, at least 48 civilians including nine children were killed on Saturday in regime air raids on Idlib province, the Observatory said.

It said the air strikes targeted rebel-held Idlib city and the towns of Saraqeb and Kafr Awid.

Separately, Turkey’s defence minister said its armed forces shot down a Syrian helicopter that violated Turkish airspace on Saturday.

“A Syrian helicopter was downed that violated the border for a period of five minutes within a seven mile (11 kilometre) limit,” Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz said, quoted by the Dogan news agency.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Turkish channel Star TV the episode served to show Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that “whoever you are, if you violate our border, you will be punished”.

Syrian state television had earlier indicated the aircraft was a drone and vehemently denied it could have been a manned aircraft.

In Iraq, IS tightened its siege on the last government positions in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad, a day after they seized the city’s government headquarters.

Taking the city would be the group’s most important victory this year in Iraq, and would give it control of the capitals of two of its largest regions, along with Mosul in Nineveh province.

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Anbar province extends from the Syrian, Jordanian, and Saudi borders to the gates of Baghdad.

Military reinforcements have been sent to Ramadi and other parts of Anbar, local officials said, and Iraq’s army and the US-led coalition have struck IS positions in the area.

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