U.S. Planes Strike ISIL Artillery in Iraq
August 8, 2014
Voice of America News reports: “U.S. military aircraft have conducted a strike on Islamist militant artillery used against Kurdish forces defending Irbil, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday.
At 6:45 a.m. EST, two fighter jets dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a truck and the mobile artillery it was towing, according to the Pentagon's press secretary, Rear Admiral John Kirby.
Militants led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant were using the artillery to shell Kurdish forces defending Kurdish capital, where U.S. personnel including diplomats and military advisers also are stationed.
The raid came hours after President Barack Obama's Thursday-evening televised announcement that he had granted permission to strike if U.S. personnel and facilities were imperiled…”
