SYDNEY: A Super Hornet fighter jet has carried out Australia's first bombing raid in Iraq, targeting what the defence ministry on Thursday described as a "facility" of the Islamist State group.

"Overnight the Australian Air Task Group operating in the Middle East attacked its first target in Iraq," the ministry said in a statement.

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