Thursday 1 September – Tornados hit a Daesh weapons cache in northern Iraq, while a Reaper destroyed a large stockpile of explosive material in Raqqa, Syria…A Reaper remotely piloted aircraft operated over Raqqa in Syria on Thursday 1 September, where its crew helped identify a large stockpile of explosive materials at an industrial site, awaiting the manufacture of improvised explosive devices and other home-made weaponry. An attack using Hellfire missiles destroyed much of the stockpile, and left the remainder on fire. Near Qayyarah, Tornados providing close air support to Iraqi ground forces conducted a successful Paveway IV attack against a weapons cache hidden in a line of trees.