WASHINGTON — The 800 year old Great Mosque of al Nuri in Mosul, Iraq was destroyed Wednesday night. This was the mosque where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi famously announced the formation of its so-called “caliphate” in 2014. ISIS blamed the U.S. military for destroying the mosque.

But in this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Col. John Thomas, spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said that’s not the case.