WorldBEIRUT, AFP -Russian air strikes on the Islamic State group bastion of Raqa in northern Syria on Thursday killed at least 30 people, including civilians and jihadists, a monitoring group said. The monitor could not specify how many of those killed were IS militants. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 raids hit the city and its outskirts, wounding at least 70 others.

Source: Sunday Times August 11, 2016 09:33 UTC