The US military has conducted an airstrike on a hospital in the Iraqi city of Mosul after saying its Iraqi allies came under fire by ISIS fighters from the hospital complex.
US Central Command said it launched a “precision strike” on a building within the al-Salem hospital complex from which Isis fighters had for more than a day launched “heavy” machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire on Iraqi forces.
The coalition did not say if any patients or civilians were present at the scene of the airstrike on the “building on the hospital complex” nor did it answer a question about any noncombatants being killed or wounded, the Guardian reports.
The Iraqis requested the aerial support, Centcom said in a Wednesday statement, after taking sustained fire from ISIS within the complex following a day-plus-long push to take the hospital back.
