Monday 16 January – Typhoons attacked three Daesh targets in and around Mosul, while a Reaper supported Iraqi troops in close combat in the east of the city…

Royal Air Force aircraft, along with coalition partners, have continued to provide intensive air support to Iraqi forces as they continued to clear eastern Mosul of Daesh positions, with the Iraqi commander reporting on 18 January that almost all districts on the left bank of the Tigris have now been successfully liberated.

On Monday 16 January, RAF Typhoons, armed with Paveway IV guided bombs, delivered an attack ten miles north-west of Mosul to breach a large defensive berm held by Daesh against the Kurdish Peshmerga. The Typhoons then flew to Mosul itself, where they first destroyed a terrorist strongpoint that dominated a road junction in central Mosul, then attacked a key route used by Daesh to move supplies and truck-bombs. A Reaper remotely piloted aircraft meanwhile provided close support to Iraqi forces engaged in close combat with Daesh. The Reaper used a Hellfire missile to kill a group of terrorists during street fighting.