DHAKA: The US-led coalition’s warplanes have bombed oil installations and other facilities in territory controlled by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in eastern Syria on Friday for a second consecutive day.

The strikes reportedly hit two oil areas in Deir ez-Zour province on Friday, a day after the US and its Arab allies attacked a dozen makeshift oil producing facilities in the same area near Syria’s border with Iraq.

The US Central Command said three air strikes south and southeast of Deir ez-Zour destroyed four ISIL tanks and damaged another, reports the Aljazeera.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes overnight and early on Friday hit the Tink oil field as well as the Qouriyeh oil-producing area in Deir ez-Zour. 

The raids aim to cripple one of ISIL’s primary sources of cash - black market oil sales that the US says earn up to $2m a day.

The Observatory and another activist collective, the Local Coordination Committees, also reported strikes on the town of Mayadeen, including on the ISIL headquarters.

Strikes also hit areas southeast of the city of Hasakah, close to the Iraqi border. They targeted ISIL, al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch the Nusra Front and other fighters, the Observatory said.

BDST: 1718 HRS, SEP 26, 2014