US says it destroyed a small Islamic State drone aircraft near Fallujah

Published May 03, 2016

The U.S. military says it bombed an Islamic State drone aircraft in Iraq that was being used for battlefield surveillance.

A spokesman for the U.S. military command in charge of the conflict against the Islamic State said Wednesday that the drone was a small, unarmed hand-held type of the sort that can be purchased commercially.

The spokesman, Maj. Kim Michelsen, said that Islamic State fighters had been flying the drone for a short time before placing it in a vehicle. A U.S. airstrike hit the vehicle near the city of Fallujah in western Iraq. He said the drone was targeted because it was being used for surveillance along IS front lines.

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