Wednesday 16 March – Tornados destroyed another heavy machine-gun team in northern Iraq, whilst a Reaper successfully attacked a terrorist check-point in western Iraq…The Kurdish forces received further air support from the RAF the following day [16 March], when Tornado GR4s, destroyed another heavy machine-gun which had opened fire on the peshmerga some miles to the west of Kirkuk. Further south, in Anbar province, a Reaper remotely piloted aircraft patrolled over Anbar province and identified and attacked a terrorist check-point near Ar Rutbah being used to intimidate and control the local population using a Hellfire missile.