US warplanes launched multiple strikes against ISIL jihadists in both Syria and Iraq Tuesday, as Britain carried out its first air raids against the group.
ISIL fighters closing in on a key town near the Turkish border were among the targets of nearly a dozen US air raids in Syria, the Pentagon said.
US warplanes also bombed ISIL in neighbouring Iraq as Kurdish forces launched attacks on three fronts in a bid to recapture ground lost to the group last month.
First strikes by Britain
Britain said its jets had destroyed an ISIL heavy weapons post and a machine gun-mounted vehicle in the country's first air strikes against the group in Iraq.
ISIL fighters have captured large parts of Iraq and Syria, declaring an Islamic "caliphate" and committing a wide range of atrocities.
The Pentagon, appealing for patience, warned that there would by no quick and easy end to the fighting.
No one should be lulled into a false sense of security by accurate air strikes," Pentagon spokesman, Rear Admiral John Kirby, told reporters.
"We will not, we cannot bomb them into obscurity."
A long-term effort will be needed to train and arm Syrian rebel forces and strengthen Iraq's army, he said.
He said "military action alone will not win this effort".
More US troops
The US Marine Corps plans to deploy 2,300 troops to the Middle East for a new "special purpose marine air ground task force" designed to quickly respond to crises in the volatile region, Kirby added.
The idea for the task force originated before the US air strikes against the Islamic State group and is not related "to the ongoing operations in Iraq," he said............................http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/isil-fighters-near-turkish-border-despite-us-air-strikes.aspx?pageID=238&nID=72394&NewsCatID=352
1/10/14
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- Kurdish sources: Coalition jets strike Islamic State near Turkish border...
MURSITPINAR, Turkey - US-led forces launched air strikes on Islamic State fighters who are besieging a Kurdish town near the Syrian border with Turkey on Wednesday, Kurdish sources in the town and a monitoring group said, a rare daylight coalition attack.
A Reuters correspondent on the Turkish side of the border could hear jets overhead and saw a column of black smoke rising into the sky from the southeast of the town.
"Today, American jets hit a village that is 4-5 km (2-3 miles) southeast of Kobani and we heard they destroyed one (Islamic State) tank," Parwer Mohammed Ali, a translator with the PYD Kurdish group, told Reuters by telephone from Kobani, known as Ain al-Arab in Arabic.
The United States has been carrying out strikes in Iraq against the militant group since July and in Syria since August with the help of Arab allies and Britain. Using mostly night strikes, it aims to damage and destroy the bases and forces of the al-Qaida offshoot that has captured large areas of both countries.........Reuters........http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Kurdish-sources-Coalition-jets-strike-Islamic-State-near-Turkish-border-376744
1/10/14
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