Aerial Footage Shows RAF Strike on IS Car Bomb

This footage, released by the UK’s Ministry of Defense, is said to show an airstrike on an Islamic State car bomb in Bayji, Iraq, on May 17. The strike was said to have been carried out by Royal Air Force Tornado GR4s, supporting Iraqi army operations in the area. The MOD’s description of the footage said the RAF had “safely destroyed with a Brimstone missile a car bomb which the terrorists had positioned ahead of the advancing Iraqi troops.” Credit: YouTube/defenceheadquarters