http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/1...rolled-oil-fields-in-syria.html?referer=&_r=0
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/06/us-led-air-strikes-general-defends-attacks
A day after a senior general offered an emphatic defence of the air campaign that has not stopped advances byIslamic State militants, the US military said it and its allies had carried out another 14 strikes in Iraq and seven in Syria.
In a news conference he said was called to counter misconceptions about the use of air power in an unconventional war, Air Force Lieutenant General John W Hesterman III said on Friday that pilots serving the US-led coalition were killing more than 1,000 militants a month while avoiding casualties among civilians and Iraqi government forces.
Isis has recently made territorial gains in the Anbar province of Iraq, including taking the capital Ramadi. Critics have accused US commanders of being too cautious, missing opportunities to kill militants and disrupt supply lines.
“The thought that we’re observing large numbers of [Isis] terrorists and not killing them, anywhere, is fiction,” said Hesterman, who leads US Central Command’s air forces and the coalition air campaign.
“We kill them wherever we find them.”
