WASHINGTON D.C.: US-led air strikes on a Syrian border town killed “several hundred” Islamic State (IS) fighters but it may still fall, officials warned on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), acknowledging significant jihadist gains in Iraq and Syria.

While Iraqi troops prevented the jihadists from seizing a lynchpin provincial capital near Baghdad, a senior US envoy admitted IS forces have scored important advances in Iraq.

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