RAF jets destroyed an Islamic State headquarters as Allied forces tightened their grip on parts of Mosul, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon announced today.
The building on the city’s north-western outskirts was blasted by Typhoons with two Paveway IVs guided bombs on Tuesday after being kept under surveillance.
Mr Fallon, US Defence Secretary General James Mattis and their counterparts from around 50 other countries were meeting today in Brussels to discuss the campaign to liberate Mosul, in northern Iraq, and Raqqa in Syria, from Islamic State, also known as Daesh.
Sir Michael said: “Daesh is losing ground, fighters, and funding.
“Now we need to keep up the pressure on Mosul and Raqqa to deal Daesh a decisive blow.
"Britain will continue playing its leading role providing vital intelligence, precision airstrikes, and training Iraqi forces where they need it.”
RAF planes destroyed two terrorist supply trucks north-west of Mosul on Sunday, a tunnel and bunker dug into a hillside seven miles to the south-west of the city on Saturday, and sunk an IS heavy machine gun team last week on a boat on the River Tigris.
British jets and remotely piloted aircraft have now carried out more than 1,200 airstrikes against the Islamist extremists.
However, Sir Michael admitted that progress to take the IS stronghold of Raqqa had been slower than the advance into Mosul.
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