23/10/2014 13:22
US-led air campaign against ISIS kills more than 550 jihadis
The US-led air campaign against the Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq and Syria has killed 553 jihadis, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Israel National News reports.
According to the Observatory, 464 of that number belonged to the Islamic State - also known as ISIS or ISIL - while a further 57 were members of Al Qaeda's official branch in Syria, the Nusra Front.
32 civilians were also reportedly killed, including five women and six children. It is unclear whether the figure of 553 includes the civilians killed, or if the remainder of that number were members of other Islamist rebel groups - possibly including the Al Qaeda-sympathetic Ahrar al-Sham, which was targeted in at least one US airstrike in Syria.