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| Islamic State crisis: 'Coalition air strike kills US hostage' | Islamic State crisis: 'Coalition air strike kills US hostage' |
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| Islamic State (IS) militants claim that a US female hostage has been killed in a Jordanian air strike in Syria, a jihadist monitoring group says. | Islamic State (IS) militants claim that a US female hostage has been killed in a Jordanian air strike in Syria, a jihadist monitoring group says. |
| An IS report published by the SITE Intelligence Group said the woman died during air strikes on Raqqa. | An IS report published by the SITE Intelligence Group said the woman died during air strikes on Raqqa. |
| The US state department said it could not confirm the reports, but "people are looking into them". | The US state department said it could not confirm the reports, but "people are looking into them". |
| IS posted pictures of the alleged attack site, but these have not been verified. | IS posted pictures of the alleged attack site, but these have not been verified. |
| Jordan said it carried out aerial bombardments on IS targets in Syria on Thursday. | |
| The focus of Jordan's air strikes is reported to be Raqqa, which is an IS stronghold. | |
| Local activists and IS sympathisers reported fresh strikes in the city on Friday, but these have not been confirmed by officials. | |
| 'Upping the ante' | |
| The strikes were carried out in response to the killing of a Jordanian fighter pilot by IS militants. | |
| A video of Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive in a cage was posted online by IS earlier this week. | |
| He was captured by the militants in December after his F-16 fighter jet crashed in Syria. The video is believed to have been filmed on 3 January. | |
| Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said Thursday's strikes were "the beginning of our retaliation" against IS. | |
| "We're upping the ante. We're going after them wherever they are, with everything that we have," he said. | |
| Thousands rallied in Jordan's capital, Amman, on Friday morning in support of their government's military response. | |
| Among those marching was Jordan's Queen Rania who told the BBC the country was "united in our horror". | |
| She said Lt Kasasbeh's killing had made Jordanians "determined to rid the world of this evil". |