WATCH: B-52 Launch First Airstrikes Against ISIS in Iraq
23 Apr 2016
As my colleague Richard Sisk reported over at Military.com, a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress on Monday conducted its first airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq. The Defense Department later released this video showing one of the Cold War-era planes striking an ISIS weapons storage facility near Qayyarah, Iraq, as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.
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