US-led coalition airstrike destroys ISIS drone
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A U.S.-led coalition airstrike destroyed an ISIS drone in Iraq this week, Fox News confirmed.
Pentagon sources told Fox News that the "remotely piloted aircraft" was a commercial drone being used to monitor battlefield movements.
A CJTF spokesman told Fox News that the drone was seen being operated from a car, and when the drone was put back in the car, it was destroyed.
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The time of observance to destruction was 20 minutes, the spokesman said.
There were no immediate answers to how the drone was acquired.
"This RPA [remotely piloted aircraft] was not on the same scale of what we are using," the CJTF spokesman told Fox News. "We did not give it to them. It was not armed."
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Other strikes, which took place between Tuesday and Wednesday, also destroyed ISIS excavators near Mosul and Kirkuk and struck a rocket facility near Al Qaim.
A strike in Syria hit an ISIS tunnel system and a tactical unit.
Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report.