Coalition warplanes bomb ISIL' bases, oil refinery

Coalition military aircraft raided positions and an oil refinery of the militant group, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, in governorates of Deir Ezzor and Al-Riqqa, the official Syrian news agency, SANA, reported on Friday.
Citing an unnamed source in Deir Ezzor, SANA said the air strikes targeted posts and fighters' concentrations in the province rural regions, a headquarters for the irregular armed group in Tal Abiad and a nearby oil refinery.
The ISIL, an extremist group that has recently seized a chain of towns and installations in Iraq and Syria, reportedly depends on financial proceeds from oil sales in the black market.
Meanwhile, Kurdish irregular forces defending the northern border town of Ain Arab resisted fresh attacks by the assaulting ISIL gunmen and knocked out two vehicles for the attackers on the outskirts of the besieged town, SANA said.
SANA reported fierce fighting between the Syrian regime forces and a coalition of opposition groups near the central Aleppo prison. It said there were casualties among the government troops and that the opposition groups suffered at least nine deaths.
Simultaneously, fighting raged in Damascus rural areas, SANA said, adding that dispatch of relief supplies to the besieged Al-Yarmouk camp resumed.
Teams of the international relief agency, UNRWA, were involved in distribution of food parcels to the civilians in the camp, under siege since two years ago.
The Syrian crisis had started in the form of peaceful demonstrations calling for reforms, but later snowballed into ferocious warfare involving the regime troops and a cocktail of Islamic and national groups.
Source: KUNA