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RAF Launches Latest Attacks Against ISIS Militants

The British military has provided further extensive air and training support to Iraqi forces fighting ISIS terrorists after their recent gains in Ramadi and Palmyra.

While coalition teams, including British instructors, continue to run training programmes to help the Iraqi army and Kurdish peshmerga build more effective capabilities, Royal Air Force aircraft are playing a significant role in the air campaign supporting the Iraqi units fighting on the front line.

The videos below show one of the latest air strikes by RAF drones in Iraq against ISIL militants:

An ISIL weapons cache in a tunnel is successfully destroyed by a RAF Tornado GR4 using a Paveway bomb.

RAF Tornados attack an ISIL weapons store in a tunnel and in the course of this strike, a camouflaged position nearby was spotted by the aircrew, confirmed as hostile, and was also bombed.

Following identification by a Reaper, an ISIL bunker position is destroyed by a RAF Tornado GR4 using a Paveway IV precision-guided bomb.

On Sunday a Reaper destroyed an ISIL armoured vehicle, which was in close combat with Iraqi forces, with a Hellfire missile.

It then provided surveillance support for four successful strikes by coalition aircraft on ISIL buildings, as well as a bulldozer which had been packed with explosives for an attack on the Iraqi troops.