RAF Tornados have helped Peshmerga forces destroy an Islamic State armed pick-up truck using a guided bomb in Iraq - as a UN report condemned "gross" human rights abuses by the terror group.
Two war planes provided air support to the Kurdish forces on the ground who were battling IS fighters in the north-west of the country.
The Ministry of Defence said the "successful precision attack" was carried out with a Paveway IV guided bomb overnight.
The strikes came as militants took control of most of the western Iraqi town of Hit in Anbar province.
"Ninety percent of the town of Hit has been overrun by militants," said Adnan al Fahdawi, a provincial council member.
The United Nations report, based on nearly 500 interviews, found the Islamist militant group had carried out mass executions, abducted women and girls as sex slaves, and used children as fighters.
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Gallery: The Moment RAF Jet Attacks IS Truck
The RAF carried out its first airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq on 1 October, 2014 (All pictures: MoD)
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Tornados destroyed a heavy weapon position, which was attacking Kurdish forces, and an armed pick-up truck (pictured). The red circle shows the path of the missile fired at the vehicle
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The strikes were the first since MPs voted to support aerial raids in Iraq last Friday
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The targets were in the northwest of Iraq
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The moment the truck, which had a mounted machine gun, was destroyed by a Brimstone missile
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A plume of smoke rose above the area
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The strike was successful, according to an initial assessment, said Defence Secretary Michael Fallon
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The Tornados safely returned to their base at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus after the sortie
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Six of the GR4 fighter jets are based on the island in the Mediterranean
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The aircraft began their combat missions on Saturday
"These include attacks directly targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, executions and other targeted killings of civilians, abductions, rape and other forms of sexual and physical violence perpetrated against women and children, forced recruitment of children, destruction or desecration of places of religious or cultural significance, wanton destruction and looting of property, and denial of fundamental freedoms," the report said.
It also said the acts of violence over a nine-week period included the systematic targeting of diverse ethnic and religious communities - including Turkmen, Shabak, Christians and Yazidis - aimed at "destroying, suppressing or cleansing them" from areas under IS control.
IS, formerly known as ISIL, has declared the establishment of a "caliphate" - or Islamic state - on the territories it occupies in Iraq and Syria.
"The array of violations and abuses perpetrated by ISIL and associated armed groups is staggering, and many of their acts may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity," said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.
The report also found airstrikes by Iraqi government forces had caused "significant civilian deaths and injuries".
The UK is supporting Iraqi and Kurdish forces battling Sunni Muslim extremists from IS, which has taken over large parts of Iraq in recent months.
Calls have been growing for strikes against the group's Syrian strongholds too.
However, a vote in Parliament last Friday did not include the authorisation of airstrikes over the country.
Turkey's parliament is currently considering whether to join the international coalition against IS and approve military action in Iraq and Syria - and allow forces to use its territory for possible operations.
"In the struggle against terrorism, we are open and ready for every kind of cooperation. However, Turkey is not a country that will allow itself to be used for temporary solutions," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
Meanwhile, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed Nigerian military claims of his death, and said the group was "running our... Islamic caliphate" in captured towns.
"Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath," he said in a video obtained by the AFP news agency.
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