US-Led Airstrikes Target Islamic State Leaders in Iraq

Arabic media are reporting that U.S.-led airstrikes have targeted a gathering of Islamic State leaders in a western Iraqi town near the Syrian border, a day after the United States pledged up to 1,500 more miltary personnel to advise in Iraq. The al-Jazeera and al-Hadath television channels say more than a dozen people were killed and several dozen wounded in a strike Saturday in the town of al-Qaim. Witnesses told the Reuters news agency the airstrike targeted a house where senior...

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