Apache gunships enter combat as Iraqi forces encircle Mosul, Pentagon says
As Iraqi forces backed by U.S. support engage the Islamic State across multiple battlefronts in Iraq, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter announced Monday that American Apache helicopter gunships had been used in combat for the first time since President Obama authorized their use in April. Speaking to reporters during a flight to a meeting of […]Thomas Gibbons-Neff reports for The Washington Post:
As Iraqi forces backed by U.S. support engage the Islamic State across multiple battlefronts in Iraq, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter announced Monday that American Apache helicopter gunships had been used in combat for the first time since President Obama authorized their use in April.
Speaking to reporters during a flight to a meeting of NATO ministers in Brussels, Carter declined to go into details about the operation but said the Monday strikes were in support of Iraqi forces battling the Islamic State outside Mosul.
