U.S.-led coalition says hit Islamic State targets in Syrian town


  • World
  • Tuesday, 27 Jun 2017

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition said on Tuesday it had conducted strikes on Islamic State targets in the Syrian town of al-Mayadeen this week and it would assess allegations that dozens of people had been killed in an air strike there on Monday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights earlier said dozens of people had been killed on Monday in al-Mayadeen in an air strike believed to have been carried out by the coalition on an Islamic Sate prison.

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