Former ISIS stronghold liberated (Image: Getty)
Two RAF Tornados flew from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus to fire four missiles at a reinforced concrete weapon s cache, built during Saddam Hussein s dictatorial rule.
The long-range fire and forget missiles were designed as bunker busters capable of penetrating underground facilities.
The RAF’s relentless campaign against ISIS has been ongoing since it came to prominence in Iraq and Syria.
And it led the way in pulverising Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s fanatical regime.
RAF fighter get preparing to take off (Image: Getty)
Despite it being kicked out of every major stronghold it held, there are still pockets of ISIS supporters in northern Iraq.
The key to our foreign policy, Mr Johnson stressed, will be international cooperation.
This will be on a far wider plane than simply the EU, as used to be the foundation of our policy. Our global role, with a seat on the UN Security Council, gives us a key position in working on planning for future pandemic risks, and our chairmanship of the COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow this November gives a focus on global warming.
As a member of NATO we embody the transatlantic alliance – or what he called “the Euro-Atlantic area”.
As members of the EU, our foreign policy was largely dictated by having to accommodate the views of other EU members. If we disagreed, we effectively had to grin and bear it. But “in leaving the EU,” as the Prime Minister put it in his Munich speech, “we restored sovereign control over vital levers of foreign policy”.
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