Summary
U.S.-led forces hit ISIS bases in eastern Syria on Friday and a monitoring group said the Syrian army had intensified its bombing campaign in the west.
On Friday U.S. Central Command, which has also been bombing bases of the al Qaeda splinter group in Iraq since last month, said it had destroyed more than a dozen ISIS vehicles in both countries in its latest round of strikes.
The U.S. Central Command said it had destroyed four ISIS tanks and damaged another in three airstrikes south and southeast of Deir al-Zor.
Strikes also hit areas southeast of the city of Hasaka, close to Syria's border with Iraq.
Deir al-Zor, which borders Iraq, is almost entirely controlled by ISIS militants and was a major oil-producing province before Syria's conflict began more than three years ago.
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