<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>Air strikes conducted near Erbil and the Mosul dam amid reports of mass killings by Sunni fighters in Syria.
The United States has conducted air strikes in Iraq against the Islamic State goup amid reports of more atrocities carried out by its fighters in neighbouring<wm> Syria.
In a dawn address on Sunday the US military said that airstrikes struck targets belonging to the Daesh group near the Tigris River in northern Iraq near the town of Al-Habbaniya and to the south of the Tigris river town of Al-Marjah.
The strikes have also reported claims of multiple civilian casualties.
US military officials said that an operation carried out earlier this week resulted in one civilian casualty of aerial bombardment.
Two other US military personnel have been killed by Iraqi security</wm> forces while on patrol.
No Syrian troops were engaged in the battle.
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