DAMASCUS: The United States and its Arab allies turned up the heat on jihadists in Syria on Thursday, striking the oil facilities that funded their brutal rise and building an international coalition to oppose them.

British lawmakers are due to vote on Friday on their country joining the air armada pummelling the Islamic State group, and French jets were in action again on Thursday in the skies over Iraq.

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