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An Agence France-Presse photographer snapped these images, showing an Islamic terrorist right before airstrikes Thursday turned ISIS-held Tilsehir Hill, near the Turkish village of Yumurtalik, into a towering inferno.

This attack was one of many carried out by US and allied forces along the border of Syria and Turkey that ISIS fighters have been seeking to conquer.

US-led coalition airstrikes in Syria have killed more than 500 people since they began last month, mainly Islamic militants, humanitarian activists said Thursday.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, with its network of activists on the ground, said that 553 people have been killed in airstrikes since they began on Sept. 23, including 32 civilians.

Constant bombardment has been slowing ISIS advances on the Syrian-Turkish border.

“Combined with continued resistance to [ISIS] on the ground, indications are that these strikes have slowed advances . . . killed hundreds of their fighters and destroyed or damaged scores of pieces of [ISIS] combat equipment and fighting positions,” according to the allied Central Command.

Despite directs hits on ISIS ­positions, allied forces are still struggling to eradicate the brutal, well-financed jihadists.

Through an intricate network of smugglers, the militants are making $1 million a day from ­illegal oil sales, a Treasury Department official said.

In addition to money from oil, ISIS has allegedly made about $20 million in blood money this year by taking hostages and collecting ransoms.

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