Euphrates River

US-led coalition carries out airstrikes around IS stronghold in Syria

Activists say the US-led coalition has carried out more than a dozen airstrikes in and around the Islamic State group's de-facto capital in northeastern Syria.

Syrian rebels say capture eastern town of al-Shaddadeh

AMMAN (Reuters) - Rebels seized a town in an eastern oil-producing province of Syria on Thursday after three days of heavy fighting in which 30 Nusra Front fighters and 100 Syrian troops were killed, a violence monitoring group said. Taking Shaddadeh in Hasakah province from the forces of President Bashar al-Assad brings the rebels closer to the provincial capital Hasakah, 45 km (30 miles) to the north. Coinciding with the report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on the fighting was a video posted on YouTube showing fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front celebrating and chanting "Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest), Nusra Nusra"