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Syria-conflict-IS-Kurds URGENT 7 children among 16 killed in strike on IS Syria holdout: monitor Beirut, Feb 11, 2019 (AFP) - US-led coalition air strikes on the last jihadist pocket in Syria on Monday killed 16 civilians, including at least seven children, a war monitor said. Nineteen fighters from the Islamic State group were also killed in clashes with the coalition-backed Kurdish-led force spearheading the offensive against the jihadists, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. lar/ho/jmm/dv