
US-led air strikes against Daesh in Syria have killed more than 1,600 people, mainly jihadists, since they began five months ago, a monitor said on Monday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said almost all of those killed were jihadists from Daesh and Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front, though it also documented the deaths of 62 civilians.
The Britain-based monitor said the strikes that began on September 23 had killed 1,465 members of Daesh, most of them non-Syrians.
Another 73 fighters from Al-Nusra Front were killed, along with a man from a rebel group being held prisoner by Daesh in the group's de facto capital Raqa.
Washington and a small coalition of Arab countries began strikes against Daesh in Syria last year, expanding US-led operations with a broader coalition already underway against Daesh in Iraq.
Daesh emerged in Syria in 2013, growing from Al-Qaeda's former Iraqi affiliate.
But it broke with Al-Qaeda and declared an Islamic "caliphate" in territory it controls in Syria and Iraq, attracting a steady stream of foreign fighters and carrying out abuses including beheadings.
Source: AFP
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