Latest Updates on Operation Shader in Syria
The MOD has released the latest updates on Operation Shader as the RAF continue to take the fight to Islamic State in Syria.
Summary 20-21 April
- Thursday, 20 April – Typhoons supported Syrian Democratic Forces, striking a Daesh-held building north-west of Raqqa, and a mortar team hiding in a tunnel in the east of the country.
- Sunday, 23 April – Typhoons destroyed an armed truck south-west of Tabqah in Syria
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RAF assisted Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Thursday, 20 April. A pair of Typhoons struck an Islamic State-held building to the north-west of Raqqa. The Typhoons then hit an Islamic State mortar team hiding in a tunnel in the east of the country.On Sunday 23 April, Typhoons assisted the SDF, destroying an armed Islamic State truck near Tabqah, west of Raqqa.
Source: Ministry of Defence.
Photo: A Paveway II guided bomb is dropped from a Royal Air Force Typhoon of 6 Squadron, RAF Leuchars (Fife), at the Cape Wrath practice range in Scotland, by Andy Walker (Crown Copyright, 2013).
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