LONDON (AP) — British Royal Air Force personnel operated U.S. drones over Libya last year in support of the NATO mission there, the Ministry of Defense said Thursday.

While the American use of drones in Libya was previously known — a U.S. Predator drone took part in the airstrike that hit a convoy carrying ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi — British officials have insisted that no U.K. drones were involved there or have been used outside of Afghanistan.