Air Strikes Kill At Least 32 IS Fighters In Raqqa, Monitors Say

Air strikes on the Syrian city of Raqqa have killed at least 32 Islamic State (IS) militants and wounded 40 more, an activist group says.

There were more than 15 airstrikes on ISIS positions in the countryside of Raqqa province, the observatory said.

A Raqqa-based activist group that reports on IS, known as Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, said warplanes struck IS positions on the edge of the city.

RBSS did not say which country carried out the airstrikes while the Observatory said they are believed to be from the U.S.-led coalition that began targeting IS in Syria in September 2014.

It’s part of an effort to drive ISIS from territory it controls in Syria and Iraq. Lately Russia and Britain have joined in the air campaign.

Its operations have expanded further in recent days, partly in response to the deadly attacks in Paris claimed by the terrorist group. Britain’s Royal Air Force has bombed it within the past 48 hours.

The coalition said it hit Raqqa and other areas of northern and eastern Syria on Sunday. Damascus has repeatedly slammed the US-led coalition as ineffective and illegal, saying it can not uproot IS without coordinating with the Syrian government.

Russia, a staunch ally of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has coordinated its bombing raids with regime forces.

However, the strikes on Sunday have also caused dozens of civilian casualties.