Air strikes target Islamic State in eastern Syria, kill 23 - monitor

Dawn air strikes on a Syrian border town in the Islamic State-held eastern province of Deir al-Zor killed 23 people, most of them civilians, a war monitoring group said on Monday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said jets thought to belong to the U.S.-led coalition hit the town of Al-Bukamal near the border with Iraq.A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State could not immediately be reached for comment.