On Sunday 15 March, a GR4 patrol was back in northern Iraq, operating over Mosul. Knowing that the Iraqi forces plan at some point to launch an offensive to retake the city from the terrorists, ISIL have been making efforts to construct defences in and around Mosul, and the GR4s were able to disrupt some of this engineering work with Paveway and Brimstone strikes.

In a similar fashion, a further Tornado mission in the early hours of Monday morning [March 16th] conducted a Brimstone attack on a vehicle being used to create defences at Anah, near the Haditha Lake.