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                    US Launches 2nd Round of Syria Airstikes

   by VOA News

   A U.S.-led coalition has launched airstrikes in Syria against the
   Islamic State for a second day.

   Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby says the target of
   Wednesday's campaign was an area used by the militants to move
   equipment across the border into Iraq.

   Kirby said during an interview with CNN television that the U.S. also
   struck Islamic State targets in Iraq, near the Kurdish city of Irbil
   and the capital, Baghdad.

   The latest campaign follows the first strikes in Syrian by Washington
   and five Arab allies on Tuesday.

   Kirby says the U.S. "caused the kind of damage we wanted to cause" with
   targeted airstrikes a day earlier.

   The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports 120 militants belonging
   to the Islamic State and al-Qaida were killed on Tuesday.

   The initial strikes in Syria included help from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia,
   Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
   WATCH: Related video report by Pentagon Correspondent Carla Babb

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