The US and five Arab countries have begun airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria.
The strikes were launched using fighters, bombers and Tomahawk missiles launched from US ships in the northern Persian Gulf and the Red Sea and form part of the expanded military campaign authorised by Barack Obama two weeks ago.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Bahrain were involved in the airstrikes a US official said, although their exact roles were unclear.
Islamic State have made rapid gains in Iraq and Syria Damascus says Washington informed Syria's UN envoy before launching the strikes against targets which included Islamic State group headquarters in Raqqa in eastern Syria, weapons storage facilities and checkpoints.
Military officials say militants' command and control centres, re-supply facilities, training camps and other key logistical sites are also being targeted.
The strikes follow a summit of world leaders in Paris where agreement was reached to form a broad coalition to counter the advance of Islamic State 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 Islamic State militants are in Syria.
A second video of UK hostage John Cantlie has been released by IS Sky's US correspondent Dominic Waghorn said: "After years of watching from the sidelines, America is now involved in the country's bloody civil war.
"In the sovereign airspace and territory of another nation, these strikes are particularly surprising.
"This military coalition is very important for America who do not want to be seen as going ahead on their own."
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 US journalists and British aid worker David Haines, and the threat to kill UK hostage Alan Henning.
The US action comes four days after France destroyed an Islamic State logistics depot in its first airstrikes against the militant group in Iraq.
The group is still holding British hostage Alan Henning President Francois Hollande said Rafale fighter jets, accompanied by support planes, "entirely destroyed" the depot in the north of the country.
Meanwhile, a second propaganda video of British hostage John Cantlie has been released by Islamic State.
Speaking to the camera and speaking under duress, Mr Cantlie addresses the coalition of states targeting the group, though it is not clear when the video was filmed.
"Everyone now is getting involved," he said. "Denmark and France have sent airpower, Britain is arming the Kurds, Iran is sending troops and contractors are being sought in Iraq.
An IS splinter group has threated to kill French tourist Herve Gourdel "Even Bashah al Assad, until earlier this year the most hated and villianised 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 a potential mess in the making."
Earlier, a kidnapped Frenchman appeared in a video posted online, saying he is being held by an Algeria-based Islamic State splinter group.
In the footage, a spokesman for the group - which calls itself Jund al-Khilafah, or Caliphate Soldiers - threatens to kill 55-year-old Herve Gourde unless France ends its military operation against Islamic State in Iraq.
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