By Phil Stewart and Tom Perry WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) – The United States and its Arab allies bombed Syria for the first time on Tuesday, killing scores of Islamic State fighters and members of a separate al Qaeda-linked group, opening a new front against militants by joining Syria's three-year-old civil war. In a remarkable sign of shifting Middle East alliances, the attacks encountered no objection – and even signs of tacit approval – from President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government, which said Washington had notified it in advance. U.S. …

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