Reuters, Amman :Air strikes by a US-led coalition set up to fight Islamic State targeted the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in northwest Syria overnight, an organization that tracks violence in the Syrian civil war reported on Thursday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air strikes targeted an office and a vehicle used by Nusra Front in Idlib province in northwestern Syria, where last week the al Qaeda-affiliated group routed Western-backed Syrian rebels.The Observatory also reported the first air strikes against Ahrar al-Sham, another hardline Islamist insurgent group.Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Observatory, said it marked the second time the Nusra Front has been hit in the US-led campaign. The first was on Sept. 23 – the first day of the US air strikes in Syria that are part of Washington’s strategy to “degrade and destroy” Islamic State.
