(15. Mai) Six months on from the UK’s first drone strike against ISIS, new figures have been released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to Drone Wars UK detailing the number of air and drone strikes that have been undertaken by UK forces in Iraq.
Responding to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request from Drone Wars UK, the MoD state that 202 British strikes have targeted ISIS in Iraq up until the end of March 2015. At least a further 32 strikes have taken place in April according to the MoD’s Iraq Update webpage giving a minimum total of 234 UK strikes in Iraq at the end of April 2015. 100 of these have been carried out by drones.