Pentagon announces airstrike on ISIL artillery

We’ll update this post as more information becomes available.

Update:

It appears the Pentagon’s announcement was made via Twitter.

https://twitter.com/BrettLoGiurato/status/497726255928967168

How does the media plan to cover airstrikes in Iraq, by RT’ing the Pentagon?

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) August 8, 2014

We are seeing unconfirmed reports that the airstrikes were launched from the USS George H. W. Bush.

https://twitter.com/AdamBlickstein/status/497729719232888832

Breaking: Obama launches airstrikes from USS George H. W. Bush against ISIS so he can blame Bush if it all goes wrong pic.twitter.com/mtxVLhGTvR

— Walter Cronkite (@CronkiteSays) August 8, 2014

This Twitter user has priorities:

Damn, Martha Radits interrupts my Family feud for a, "Special Report" act like Igaf if we are bombing Iraq bioch it's @IAmSteveHarvey

— ~ Donny ~ (@DonovanCreamer1) August 8, 2014