Thursday 17 November – Tornados attacked a Daesh bunker in western Iraq and a mortar position in the north, while Typhoons destroyed four booby-trapped buildings north of Raqqa in Syria…

Royal Air Force aircraft have continued to support both the Iraqi operation to liberate Mosul and the advance by the Syrian Democratic Forces against Raqqa.

Two Typhoons, armed with Paveway IV guided bombs, were tasked on Thursday 17 November to deal with a group of buildings which Daesh had heavily booby-trapped with large improvised explosive devices in the path of the SDF’s offensive north of Raqqa. Direct hits safely demolished all four target buildings, setting off large secondary explosions. Over Iraq the same day, two pairs of Tornados provided close air support over northern and western parts of the country. North-east of Tall Afar, one mission used a Paveway IV against a terrorist mortar position, while in the west, the other flight used an Enhanced Paveway II to bomb a bunker located in the countryside north-east of Rawah.