This file photo shows thick smoke rising following an airstrike by the US-led coalition in the town of Kobani in Syria. � AP[/caption]About 30 people have been killed in airstrikes by US-led coalition targeting a Syrian oil refinery held by the ISIL Takfiri militants.
According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the air raids that were carried late Sunday night hit the refinery near the Turkish-Syrian border outside the town of Tel Abyad.
The UK-based group added that the dead included�refinery workers and ISIL terrorists.
Syrian activists also posted a video that purportedly shows the strikes, depicting a huge fireball.
Since late September 2014, the US and some of its Arab allies have been conducting airstrikes against the ISIL inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.
The US-led coalition�s airstrikes have also hit Syrian infrastructure. The coalition has also attacked the provinces where the ISIL militants are not active.
Washington and its allies�have been staunch supporters of the Takfiri terrorists fighting against the Syrian government since March 2011.
The ISIL terror group currently controls parts of Iraq and Syria.
Last November the�UN�said the extremist militants made between USD 846,000 and�USD 1.6 million a day from�selling oil.
By Press TV
