A series of American airstrikes killed at least 250 ISIS fighters
driving in a convoy outside Fallujah on Wednesday, a senior U.S. defense
official confirmed to Fox News.
The strikes occurred on the outskirts of the Iraqi city in “southern Fallujah,”
“There was a strike on a convoy of ISIS fighters
trying to leave a neighborhood on the outskirts of southern Fallujah
that we struck,” the official said.
At least 40 vehicles were destroyed in the airstrikes, a U.S. official told Reuters, which was first to report the air assault.
The U.S. airstrikes come roughly 24 hours after the
triple suicide bombing at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport that killed at
least 42 people where ISIS is considered the prime suspect, according to
top U.S. officials.