Coalition airstrikes pound Daesh stronghold of Raqqa in Syria

US-led coalition forces launched a major series of airstrikes against Daesh group's self-declared capital, Raqqa, in Syria Saturday, International Business Times reported on Sunday.

"The significant airstrikes tonight were executed to deny Daesh the ability to move military capabilities throughout Syria and into Iraq," spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gilleran said in a coalition statement Saturday night.

The statement described the coalition action as "one of the largest deliberate engagements we have conducted to date in Syria,” adding that the strikes "have severely constricted terrorist freedom of movement.” The airstrikes reportedly targeted Daesh structures and transit routes in the city.

Though Saturday's sortie was one of the largest coalition actions to target the militants so-called capital city, the coalition has in recent weeks regularly launched as many or more airstrikes in Syria and Iraq in a day.
Source: MENA