Almost 600 killed in Syria after a month of U.S.-led airstrikes

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Almost 600 killed in Syria after a month of U.S.-led airstrikes
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More than 550 Islamist fighters and 32 civilians have been killed in Syria during a month of airstrikes by U.S.-led forces.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that of those deaths, 464 of the fighters were from ISIS, while 57 were from the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front. Of the civilians, six were children and five were women.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US
Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.