BOOM! U.S.-led Forces Destroy ISIS Command And Control HQ

One of Donald Trump’s main promises to the American people was to wipe ISIS off the face of the earth and the news out of Mosul shows the President is keeping his word. U.S.-led forces took out ISIS’s command and took control of it’s headquarters on Friday.

The Washington Examiner reports:

An Islamic State command-and-control headquarters in western Mosul was destroyed by a coalition air strike, the Defense Department announced on Saturday.

The five-story Bab Sinjar administration building, which also served as a propaganda facility, was located in the Jumhuri medical community complex, the release from Operation Inherent Resolve said. The U.S.-led coalition carried out the strike in Iraq on Friday.

Islamic State terrorists regularly use protected sites like hospitals, schools and mosques for activities to try to protect themselves from air strikes, but the coalition determined through intelligence collection that the building was no longer used for any medical purposes and that there were no civilians at the site.

Not only has ISIS sustained heavy damaged from U.S.-led forces, but Russia has been pounding the group, as well.

The Daily Star reports:

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that long-range bombers had fired a series of cruise missiles at ISIS targets around the Syrian city of Raqqa.

The ministry said in a statement that the Tupolev-95 bombers had taken off from Russia and flown over Iran and Iraq to get to Syria where it said they had successfully targeted militant training camps and a command point.

Russia carried out a series of sustained attacks on Raqqa in late 2015, but has since focused its fire power around Aleppo and other rebel-held areas.

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