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US-led Syria strikes kill over 900: Activist group

BEIRUT — A prominent Syrian activist group monitoring its civil war says US-led airstrikes in the country have killed over 900 people since September, many fighters of the militant Islamic State group, though some civilians as well.

In this file photo taken on  Monday, Nov 17, 2014, smoke rises from the Syrian city of Kobani, following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition, seen from a hilltop outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. Photo: AP

In this file photo taken on Monday, Nov 17, 2014, smoke rises from the Syrian city of Kobani, following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition, seen from a hilltop outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. Photo: AP

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BEIRUT — A prominent Syrian activist group monitoring its civil war says US-led airstrikes in the country have killed over 900 people since September, many fighters of the militant Islamic State group, though some civilians as well.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said today (Nov 22) that the US-led airstrikes have killed 785 militants of the extremist Islamic State group. It said the strikes also have killed 72 militants of Syria’s al-Qaida’s affiliate, the Nusra Front.

The Observatory, which observers believe provides the conflict’s most accurate death tolls, said the US-led strikes also killed 52 civilians, including eight women and five children.

A U.S.-led coalition began striking the Islamic State group in late September in Syria after targeting the group in Iraq.

Activists say Syria’s civil war has killed over 200,000 people. AP

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