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US-Led Coalition Strikes Hit Daesh Chemical Weapons Storage in Iraq

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US-led coalition anti-Daesh airstrikes hit the group’s chemical weapons storage near the Iraqi city of Huwayjah on Wednesday.

A warplane comes in to land after completed a mission at Britain's Royal Air Force Base in Akrotiri near southern city of Limassol, Cyprus, on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. Britain's Ministry of Defense said warplanes have taken off for their first combat mission over Iraq since Parliament approved airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group - Sputnik International
US-Led Coalition Strikes Destroy More Daesh Oil Assets in Syria
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Airstrikes of the US-led coalition against the Daesh hit the group’s chemical weapons storage near the Iraqi city of Huwayjah on Wednesday, the US Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve said in a statement.

"Near Al Huwayjah, two strikes engaged the Daesh chemical weapons storage facility and destroyed a rocket system, a rocket rail, and a mortar system," the statement said on Thursday.

The coalition conducted a total of ten strikes in Iraq, coordinated with the country's government. The strikes destroyed Daesh tactical units, explosives factories, inoperable coalition equipment and headquarter buildings, the Task Force said.

Eight additional airstrikes in Syria destroyed more than 20 Daesh supply routes, oil well heads and oil tanker trucks, the statement noted.

The US-led coalition of more than 60 nations has been carrying out airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since the summer of 2014. In Syria, however, the coalition is acting without the approval of the legitimate government of President Bashar Assad or the UN Security Council.

The Daesh, has been designated as a terrorist organization and is outlawed in Russia and numerous other countries throughout the world.

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