Military Reports

Military Reports

UK MoD for May 23, 2016 – May 24, 2016
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Report Date

May 24, 2016

Monday 23 May – A Reaper attacked a terrorist checkpoint in Syria, near Dayr az Zawr; Typhoons struck a truck-bomb workshop near Mosul, mortar and rocket teams near Habbaniyah; and Tornados hit a mortar team near Fallujah…On Monday 23 May Tornados used a Brimstone missile against a further mortar team near Fallujah. Not far away, Iraqi ground forces were in close combat north of Habbaniyah assisted by a pair of RAF Typhoons that struck a mortar team and a rocket position with Paveways. In the north of the country two more Typhoons contributed to a coalition strike on Daesh installations west of Mosul, a workshop preparing truck-bombs was assigned as the RAF target and successfully demolished by a Paveway. Across the border, in eastern Syria, an RAF Reaper identified a terrorist checkpoint north-west of Dayr az Zawr and destroyed it with a Hellfire missile.

Report Date

May 24, 2016

Monday 23 May – A Reaper attacked a terrorist checkpoint in Syria, near Dayr az Zawr; Typhoons struck a truck-bomb workshop near Mosul, mortar and rocket teams near Habbaniyah; and Tornados hit a mortar team near Fallujah…On Monday 23 May Tornados used a Brimstone missile against a further mortar team near Fallujah. Not far away, Iraqi ground forces were in close combat north of Habbaniyah assisted by a pair of RAF Typhoons that struck a mortar team and a rocket position with Paveways. In the north of the country two more Typhoons contributed to a coalition strike on Daesh installations west of Mosul, a workshop preparing truck-bombs was assigned as the RAF target and successfully demolished by a Paveway. Across the border, in eastern Syria, an RAF Reaper identified a terrorist checkpoint north-west of Dayr az Zawr and destroyed it with a Hellfire missile.