WASHINGTON: The United States and its allies carried out 10 airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and 25 strikes in Iraq since Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday.

Kurdish fighters, supported by the coalition, were forcing militants to cede territory in northern Syria at an increasing rate, U.S. Brigadier General Thomas Weidley, chief of staff of the coalition effort, said in a statement.

Most of the airstrikes in Syria were targeted in the area near Al Hasakah, where they destroyed four ISIS fighting positions, a checkpoint, an excavator and other equipment, according to the statement.

In Iraq, the strikes were targeted at ISIS positions near Baghdadi, Bayji, Fallujah and Mosul, among other sites.