Military Reports

Military Reports

UK MoD for May 26, 2016 – May 27, 2016
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Report Date

May 27, 2016

Thursday 26 May – Typhoons continued to support operations in the Fallujah area, and eliminated a team of suicide bombers north of Baghdad, while Tornados struck Daesh positions and a tunnel near Mosul…They returned to the same area the following day [Thursday 26 May], hitting an ammunition cache that had been spotted near the destroyed bunker. They then struck a building north-east of Fallujah where a large group of terrorists had been reported massing for a counter-attack. In the north, Tornados bombed two terrorist-held buildings and a tunnel near Mosul. Later in the day, a Typhoon flight was tasked with eliminating a group of suicide bombers who had been spotted north of Baghdad, preparing for an attempted diversionary attack on the security cordon around the city; a Paveway IV demolished the building in which they were hiding.

Report Date

May 27, 2016

Thursday 26 May – Typhoons continued to support operations in the Fallujah area, and eliminated a team of suicide bombers north of Baghdad, while Tornados struck Daesh positions and a tunnel near Mosul…They returned to the same area the following day [Thursday 26 May], hitting an ammunition cache that had been spotted near the destroyed bunker. They then struck a building north-east of Fallujah where a large group of terrorists had been reported massing for a counter-attack. In the north, Tornados bombed two terrorist-held buildings and a tunnel near Mosul. Later in the day, a Typhoon flight was tasked with eliminating a group of suicide bombers who had been spotted north of Baghdad, preparing for an attempted diversionary attack on the security cordon around the city; a Paveway IV demolished the building in which they were hiding.