US-Led Airstrikes in Syria Kill Over 900: Monitoring Group

A prominent activist group monitoring Syria's civil war says U.S.-led airstrikes in the country have killed more than 900 people since the campaign against Islamic State militants began in September. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the toll includes more than 50 civilians, five of them women and eight of them children. But the group says a majority of those killed, a total of 785, were Islamic State fighters. It says another 72 militants killed in the...

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