Peshmerga and People’s Protection Units (YPG) fighters walk in the city of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, as seen from the southeastern border village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on Nov. 8, 2014

U.S.-led air strikes hit positions belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the north and east of Syria, including an oil field, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday.

The air strikes against ISIS came as the extremist group shelled a camp for people displaced from the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobane, killing two civilians, the activist group said.

“Four explosions were heard during the night in Deir Ezzor province [eastern Syria], caused by U.S.-Arab air strikes in the area of the Tanak oil field and an ISIS checkpoint … killing two people,” said the Observatory.

The UK-based monitoring group, which relies on a network of sources on the ground for its reports, said it was unclear whether the casualties were militants or civilians.

ISIS controls most oil fields in Deir Ezzor province, which borders Iraq.

The U.S.-led coalition, which launched strikes against militant positions in Syria in September, also hit ISIS militants in Kobane.

Known as Ain al-Arab in Arabic, the town on the border with Turkey has been besieged by ISIS for nearly two months.

Syrian Kurdish forces backed by rebels and Iraqi Peshmerga fighters have been battling to expel ISIS from the town, most of whose residents have fled.

ISIS shelling on Saturday killed two civilians and wounded four others, including a child, at a camp for people forced by violence from Kobane to the west of the town, said the Observatory.

Separately, the activists said fighting on Thursday night in a majority Druze region near Lebanon killed 31 combatants loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and 14 rebels, including Al-Qaeda militants, in an updated toll.

There has been frequent violence in Syria’s Mount Hermon but the toll over recent days has been unprecedented.

A Lebanese security source told AFP that 11 rebel fighters wounded in the latest clashes had been prevented by Lebanese soldiers from crossing the mountainous border area to seek medical treatment.

Later, the Lebanese army allowed a medical team to travel to the border area in order to treat the wounded there.

In recent weeks, Lebanon has all but closed the border officially to incoming Syrian refugees, with troops bolstering border security.

More than 1.1 million Syrian refugees are living in Lebanon, straining the country’s limited resources and infrastructure.

 
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