聯軍空襲敘利亞境內煉油廠

Airstrikes hit oil refineries near Syria's border with Turkey early Sunday in the ongoing offensive against Islamic State militants.

A U.S.-led military coalition has targeted similar facilities in the last week to stop the flow of millions of dollars in daily oil production revenue to the group, which has taken over parts of Syria and Iraq in recent months.

The U.S. Defense Department said coalition warplanes on Saturday struck a northern Syrian town that has been under militant siege for nearly two weeks.

Activists and Kurdish officials said Islamic State fighters fired rockets into the town, known both as Kobane and Ain al-Arab. At least 12 people were reported wounded in the rocket attacks, while no immediate casualty estimates were released for the coalition strikes.

The Islamic State siege at Kobane has sent 160,000 refugees streaming into Turkey, while hundreds of Kurdish fighters inside Turkey have crossed into the Syrian town to defend it.聯軍星期天對伊斯蘭國激進分子在敘利亞靠近土耳其邊界的煉油設施進行空中打擊。

美國領導的聯軍一個星期以來連續打擊類似的煉油設施，以阻止伊斯蘭國提煉石油所獲得的收入。伊斯蘭國已經佔領了敘利亞和伊拉克的大片土地，通過提煉石油獲得的美元數以百萬計。

美國國防部說，聯軍戰機星期六攻擊了敘利亞北部城鎮科班尼地區，該城鎮已被極端分子圍困了將近兩個星期。活動人士和庫爾德官員說，伊斯蘭國的武裝向城鎮裏發射火箭，造成至少12人受傷。目前還沒有聯軍空襲是否造成人員傷亡的消息。

伊斯蘭國在科班尼的圍攻行動，導致16萬難民涌入土耳其境內，數百名庫爾德人越過土耳其境內，前往參加保衛這座敘利亞城鎮的戰鬥。