The US and five Arab countries have begun airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria for the first time.
The aerial raids were carried out using fighter jets, bombers, drones, and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from US ships in the northern Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.
And the strikes form part of the expanded military campaign against IS that was authorised by President Barack Obama two weeks ago.
An image apparently shows one of the airstrikes. Pic: Alatareb Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain and Qatar were involved in the raids, a US official said, although their exact roles were unclear. The strikes did not involve the UK.
Damascus said Washington informed Syria's UN envoy before launching the bombings.
At least 50 airstrikes were carried out on IS militant targets and 20 fighters were killed, according to activists, who added the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front was also hit.
The sites reportedly included the IS headquarters in the stronghold of Raqqa, weapons supplies, checkpoints and a Syrian army base the insurgents recently seized.
As well as Raqqa, there were strikes on the towns of Tabqa, Ein Issa and the border town of Tel Abyad near Turkey, activists claimed.
Saudia Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Bahrain and Qatar were involved in the raids US military officials said targets including militants' command and control centres, re-supply facilities, training camps and other key logistical sites were expected to be hit.
Residents in Raqqa had said last week that IS was moving underground after Mr Obama signalled on September 11 that air attacks on its forces could be expanded from Iraq to Syria.
The group had evacuated buildings it was using as offices, redeployed its heavy weaponry, and moved fighters' families out of the city, the residents said.
The strikes follow a summit of world leaders in Paris where agreement was reached to form a broad coalition to counter the advance of IS in Syria and to provide military aid to Iraq to fight the extremist network.
Military leaders have said about two thirds of the estimated 31,000 IS militants are in Syria.
Islamic State have made rapid gains in Iraq and Syria International efforts to combat the group, who have grabbed swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, have taken on an added urgency after the beheading of two US journalists and British aid worker David Haines, and the threat to kill UK hostage Alan Henning.
The US action comes four days after France destroyed an IS logistics depot in its first airstrikes against the militant group in Iraq.
A second video of UK hostage John Cantlie has been released by IS Meanwhile, a second propaganda video of British hostage John Cantlie has been released by IS.
Speaking to the camera and seemingly under duress, he addresses the coalition of states targeting the group, though it is not clear when the video was filmed.
The group is still holding British hostage Alan Henning "Everyone now is getting involved," he said. "Denmark and France have sent air power, Britain is arming the Kurds, Iran is sending troops and contractors are being sought in Iraq.
"Even Bashar al Assad, until earlier this year the most hated and villainised tyrant in the Arab world, is being approached for permission to go into Syria.
"It's all quite a circus. Not since Vietnam have we witnessed such a potential mess in the making."
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