They were quickly pushed into combat, performing air raids as early as the beginning of August 2014 and later expanding their area of operation.
(meta data) TITLE: Who Bombed ISIS Militants On August 7? - Business Insider (meta data) AUTHOR: http://www.businessinsider.com/author/michael-b-kelley (meta data) PUBLISHER: businessinsider 10 captures 25 Jul 2015 - 14 May 2022 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Internet Archive These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved. Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors. The goal is to fix all broken links on the web. Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. 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But it's not clear who the pilots were. The Pentagon immediately denied a New York Times report that the U.S. carried out Thursday's strikes. Iraqi military officials told CNN and The Wall Street Journal that the Iraqi Air Force had struck ISIS targets near Erbil, which is the regional capital of Iraqi Kurdistan and host to hundreds of U.S. military advisers. The Iraqi Air Force is poorly equipped, consisting of several Cessna planes carrying American-supplied Hellfire missiles, some American- and Russian-supplied helicopters, and Russian-made Su-25 aircraft. @MichaelKelleyBI Or at least Russian and Iranian pilots in planes with iraqi insignia — Garrett Khoury (@MockCasbah) August 8, 2014 Last month a Pentagon official told The Hill that the U.S. believed Iranian pilots were in the air in Iraq while denying that Russian personnel were operating in the area. But diplomatic sources told The Daily Beast that "Russian pilots will fly the planes due to a lack of Iraqi pilots with the proper training." (Fittingly, geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia group told Bloomberg TV this morning that the U.S. was "fighting shoulder-to-shoulder, as it were, with the Russians and the Iranians.") Garrett Khoury, the director of research at The Eastern Project, explained that the Iraqi Air Force "recently acquired around a dozen SU-25 ground attack aircraft from Russia (with more possibly coming from Belarus) ... [which] give them the ability to conduct serious ground-support operations. Thursday's attack came two days after Iraqi jets struck an ISIS convoy near the northern city of Mosul. "[The Su-25s] are Russian jets bearing Iraqi insignia, but possibly piloted by Russians," Khoury continued. "Iraq did use the SU-25 during the Saddam Hussein era, and there are probably former Iraqi pilots who flew them, but it has been at best 12 years since any Iraqi pilot got any significant flying time with the plane." ### REUTERS/StringerAn Iraqi soldier with a Russian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter plane, which arrived at Iraq's al-Muthanna military airbase at Baghdad airport in Baghdad on July 1.So who bombed ISIS on Thursday night? The most probable answer is Iraqi Su-25s, manned by Russian or Iranians — or maybe Iraqis. "The Iraqi government was just as quick to take credit for the strikes as other governments were to deny their involvement, and so, combined with the fact that the IAF can launch such operations, it actually looks like they managed to do it on their own," Khoury told BI. In any case, Iraq's skies are crowded. A former high-ranking CIA official in Baghdad told Jeff Stein of Newsweek that Turkish jets carried out the airstrikes. "There's no question about it," he said, adding that "certainly we are giving them targeting data." Stein notes that Turkish F-16s were reportedly patrolling the skies over the area near Sinjar in northern Iraq, where about 50,000 Yezidis are starving after fleeing ISIS militants. "Iran has used its own Air Force to attack ISIS since the beginning of the group's offensive, but mostly to keep them away from the Iranian border," Khoury said. "Syria has likewise conducted air strikes on ISIS targets on the Iraqi side of their shared border." Even U.S. President Barack Obama, while announcing the authorization of airstrikes and humanitarian aid in Iraq, allowed for ambiguity about Thursday night's strike. Obama didn't say airstrikes had already happened. He didn't said they hadn't, either. — Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianAP) August 8, 2014 In any case, ISIS is now getting hit from the sky to push it back from Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraqi Air Force Commander Lt. 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Those "Iranian" jets fled Iraq when Operation Desert Storm was launched: a US led coalition attack in January 1991 to push Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, the neigbouring state the Iraqi military occupied several months earlier. See the video footage of Iran returing Su-25s to Iraq in July 2014: The Iraqi Air Force is working hard to train its pilots to operate the Su-25s. When the Iranian jets arrived in Summer, 10 Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) pilots stayed. Some of them might actually have bombed ISIS targets to as Iran itself is every now and then involved in bombing missions against ISIS. 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Operational history.:2014 Northern Iraq offensive.
On 29 June 2014, it was reported that Iraq claimed to have received the first batch of second hand Su-25s ordered from Russia in order to fight Sunni rebels of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. An Iraqi defense ministry source claimed the aircraft would be in service "within three to four days", despite the fact that the Iraqis require technical help and parts to make them operational, and the fact that the Russian made aircraft are incompatible with the Iraqi Air force's inventory of American made Hellfire missiles. 
 The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Air Force delivered seven Su-25s on 1 July 2014, the majority of which were ex-Iraqi aircraft from the Gulf War.