U.S.-led coalition aircraft unleashed a series of strikes targeting the Islamic State group’s stronghold of Raqqa in eastern Syria in what the coalition said Sunday was one of its most sustained aerial operations carried out in Syria to date.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif were locked in negotiations Sunday in Vienna with just two days left before their latest deadline for a comprehensive nuclear pact.
World powers and Iran are hoping to clinch a deal by Tuesday, setting a decade of restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program and granting Iran relief from international sanctions.
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
