The U.S. Air Force's B-52 Stratofortresses on their first combat deployment to the Mideast since the 1991 Gulf war have conducted their initial airstrikes against ISIS, military officials said Wednesday.
"On Monday, this iconic platform conducted its first mission against an [ISIS] weapons storage facility in Qayyarah" in northwestern Iraq south of Mosul, said Army Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman in Baghdad for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve.
Earlier this month, the B-52s, flying out of the al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, replaced B-1 Lancer bombers in the Air Force inventory for precision-guided bomb attacks against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and for close-air support missions for local forces. The B-1s returned to the U.S. for maintenance and upgrades.
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6 comments:
I witnessed B-52 strikes in Vietnam. It gets the attention of the bad guys!
Thanks, Hillary and Barack, for bringing another unwinnable war to the planet.
I'm glad they are doing this, but I am confident the illegal Muslim from Kenya is one of them so I am very confused.
It's time to level the whole region into submission and fear!!!
4:10 It would be Bush that decided to invade Iraq.
Too late Obama AW.
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