The US and five Arab countries have been carrying out airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria for the first time.
Fighter jets, bombers and drones as well as Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from US ships in the northern Persian Gulf and the Red Sea were deployed in the aerial raids.
The strikes form part of the expanded military campaign against IS insurgents that was authorised two weeks ago by President Barack Obama. He is due to meet foreign leaders at the UN General Assembly later.
A Tomahawk missile is launched from USS Arleigh Burke US Central Command said Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain and Qatar had either taken part in or supported the Syria raids although their exact roles were unclear. The strikes did not involve the UK.
Where the airstrikes took place in Syria Damascus said Washington informed Syria's UN envoy before launching the bombings.
The US also carried out aerial raids on its own in Syria against al Qaeda extremists that were thought to be planning an "imminent attack" against US and Western interests.
The US military said it had destroyed or damaged multiple IS targets around the militant stronghold of Raqqa as well as Deir al Zor, Hasakah and the border town of Albu Kamal.
Saudia Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Bahrain and Qatar were involved in the raids It said targets included IS fighters, training compounds, headquarters and command and control facilities, storage facilities, a finance centre, supply trucks and armed vehicles.
There were at least 50 airstrikes on IS targets and dozens of fighters were killed, according to activists.
They also said 30 fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front group died, along with eight civilians, including children, in Aleppo and Idlib.
A fighter jet takes off from USS George H W Bush Residents in Raqqa had said last week that IS was moving underground after Mr Obama signalled on September 11 that air attacks on its forces could be expanded from Iraq to Syria.
The group had evacuated buildings it was using as offices, redeployed its heavy weaponry, and moved fighters' families out of the city, the residents said.
Islamic State have made rapid gains in Iraq and Syria The strikes follow a summit of world leaders in Paris where agreement was reached to form a broad coalition to counter the advance of IS in Syria and to provide military aid to Iraq to fight the extremist network.
Military leaders have said about two thirds of the estimated 31,000 IS militants are in Syria.
International efforts to combat the group, who have grabbed swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, have taken on an added urgency after the beheading of two journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and British aid worker David Haines, and the threat to kill UK hostage Alan Henning.
A second video of UK hostage John Cantlie has been released by IS Meanwhile, a second propaganda video of British hostage John Cantlie has been released by IS.
Speaking to the camera and seemingly under duress, he addresses the coalition of states targeting the group, though it is not clear when the video was filmed.
The group is still holding British hostage Alan Henning "Everyone now is getting involved," he said. "Denmark and France have sent air power, Britain is arming the Kurds, Iran is sending troops and contractors are being sought in Iraq.
"Even Bashar al Assad, until earlier this year the most hated and villainised tyrant in the Arab world, is being approached for permission to go into Syria.
"It's all quite a circus. Not since Vietnam have we witnessed such a potential mess in the making."
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