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                 Activists: US-Led Airstrikes Kill 860 in Syria

   by VOA News

   Syrian activists say seven weeks of U.S.-led airstrikes have killed at
   least 860 people in Syria, most of them Islamic State militants.

   The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday
   the actual number could be much higher, and includes at least 50
   civilians.

   The U.S. and a coalition of other nations began hitting Islamic State
   targets in Syria in late September, expanding on an air campaign
   against the group in Iraq, where the militants had seized large areas
   in the country's north and west.

   A tally of statistics released by the U.S. Central Command shows
   coalition planes have carried out 350 airstrikes in Syria and another
   450 in Iraq.

   Several strikes have targeted the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front. The
   Syrian Observatory, which has documented violence throughout Syria's
   civil war, said Wednesday that 68 Nusra members have died in those
   attacks.
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