The Corner

Here’s What It Looks Like When We Bomb ISIS

Over the weekend, the U.S. military launched dozens of air strikes in northern Iraq, supporting the Kurdish forces there, especially in an effort to retake the Mosul dam, a crucial piece of infrastructure in the region, from the Islamic State. By all accounts the operation has been reasonably successful, though the dam doesn’t appear to have been retaken completely. It’s apparently been thoroughly booby-trapped by the jihadist group.

The U.S. released a couple videos of U.S. aircraft bombing Islamic State targets, mostly armed trucks:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wgunE4MBDaE%3Flist%3DUUNEEHeS9Y2yFVLbWGeHhbYA

Patrick Brennan was a senior communications official at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Trump administration and is former opinion editor of National Review Online.
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