A man walks accomplished accident at a abject of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, that was targeted by what activists said were U.S.-led air strikes in Reef al-Mohandeseen al-Thani in Aleppo, Syria, on September 27, 2014. REUTERS/Abdalghne Karoof
Last Updated Sep 28, 2014 8:45 AM EDT
SANILURFA, Turkey - Residents of a Turkish bound boondocks say that U.S.-led affiliation warplanes accept addled an oil refinery controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
They say the airstrikes hit the Tel Abyad refinery in the aboriginal hours of Sunday, a few hundred yards from the Turkish boondocks of Akcakale.
"There was an access and I jumped out of bed," said Akcakale agent Mehmet Ozer.
The U.S.-led affiliation has been targeting oil installations controlled by the militants, aiming to attenuate acquirement sources for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, additionally accepted as ISIL,) estimated at some $3 actor a day.
The United States and bristles Arab allies launched an aeriform attack adjoin ISIS fighters Tuesday with the aim of rolling aback and ultimately crushing the agitator group, which has created a proto-state spanning the Syria-Iraq border.
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On Saturday, U.S. Central Command said airstrikes targeted ISIS militants advancing a boondocks abreast the Turkish bound for the aboriginal time, as able-bodied as positions in the country's east.
Fighter jets and drones conducted a absolute of seven airstrikes in Syria Friday and Saturday, Central Command said. Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates alternate in the strikes with the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy.
ISIS' advance on the Syrian Kurdish boondocks of Kobani has beatific added than 100,000 refugees alive beyond the bound into Turkey in contempo canicule as Kurdish armament from Iraq and Turkey accept raced to the advanced curve to avert the town.
CBS News civic aegis contributor David Martin letters that the bang abreast Kobani was advised to booty some of the burden off of the town.
Below is video from U.S. Central Command of the bang abreast Kobani.
Central Command said an ISIS architecture and two armed cartage at the Kobani bound bridge were destroyed.
Nawaf Khalil, a agent for Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD, said the strikes abreast Kobani, additionally accepted as Ayn Arab, destroyed two tanks. He said the jihadi fighters after shelled the town, acid a cardinal of civilians.
The strikes additionally destroyed an ISIS agent south of Al-Hasakah in eastern Syria and several barrio abreast Al-Hasakah that were allotment of an ISIS garrison, Central Command said. The strikes additionally damaged an ISIS command and ascendancy ability abreast Manbij in Syria's north.
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