Islamic State crisis: Iraq air strikes 'halt IS advance'
- Ameriyat al-Falluja, 40km (25 miles) from Baghdad
- Syrian refugees have flooded in to Turkey to escape IS militants making gains in northern Syria
- Overnight strikes hit the provinces of Aleppo, Raqqa, Hassakeh and Deir al-Zour
- President Obama candidly admitted the US had "underestimated" the threat of IS
- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which monitors the conflict in Syria, said mostly civilians were hit.
In Syria US war planes also struck four more oil fields controlled by IS militants on Sunday, near the group's stronghold in Raqqa. The Pentagon said the attacks were "successful", though the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which monitors the conflict in Syria, said mostly civilians were hit. The BBC's Mark Lowen, near the Turkey-Syria border, says airstrikes in Syria appear focused on cutting off IS's revenue by targeting oil fields. The overnight strikes hit the provinces of Aleppo, Raqqa, Hassakeh and Deir al-Zour, hitting a grain silo, or storage container, as well as the country's biggest gas plant, according to SOHR. However the strikes in the town of Manbij in Aleppo province appeared to have only killed civilians, not fighters, said Rami Abdulrahman who heads the organisation.
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