Air strikes kill 23 in IS's Syria 'capital': monitor

November 03, 2015 22:40

Warplanes pounded the Islamic State group's de facto Syrian capital Raqa today, killing at least 23 people including 13 jihadists, a monitoring group said.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said either the regime or Russian airforce was believed to have carried out the strikes.

"Thirteen members of the Islamic State group and 10 civilians were killed in at least 16 air raids on the group's positions and premises in several parts of Raqa city," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

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