French fighter jets joined the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State extremists in Iraq in 2014, and expanded their mission to IS targets in Syria in September.
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“There are plenty more of these targets throughout eastern, northern Syria which we hope to be striking in the next few days and weeks”, Mr Fallon said.
Thursday’s operation involved air strikes on six targets belonging to IS, which the government refers to as Daesh and has also been referred to as Isis and Isil, in Syria on Thursday.
“We are going to need to be patient and persistent”.
Typhoons and unmanned reapers last night made their first appearance in the extended British airstrikes in Syria.
Rather than the bombing raid which immediately followed Wednesday’s House of Commons vote authorising action in Syria, two RAF Tornado fighter jets flew an armed patrol over the east of the country “gathering intelligence on terrorist activity”, the Ministry of Defence said.
The Typhoon fighter bombers had only arrived at Britain’s Cyprus base on Thursday, bolstering its strike force of Tornado warplanes.
Britain has been extremely reluctant to take military action in Syria, but quickly shifted its attitude in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris on November 13 that left at least 130 people dead.
“But, as we have both said many times, abuse and intimidation have no place in politics”.
“The ongoing and intense military effort by the Russians to prop up a dictator inside of Syria, that is the root cause of so much chaos, makes it a little ironic for him to be pointing the finger at anyone else”, he said.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said the planes had returned from the “first offensive operation over Syria and have conducted strikes”.
Hours after getting the green light to bomb Syrian ISIS targets, four Tornado jets scrambled into action – obliterating essential parts of Omar oil field, near Iraq.
He told the BBC: “They have been able to attack these terrorists on one side of the border”.
The pilot and navigator sit in the cockpit of an RAF Tornado GR4 as they taxi it on the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, after returning to the base from carrying out some of the first British bombing runs over Syria.
Fallon said that Britain is a “serious ally, that we’ve come to the aid of France, who requested us to help”. “A terrorist sniper team opened fire from a compound on Iraqi troops, but was silenced by a direct hit from a Paveway IV guided bomb”.
Mr Burnham responded: “I think that’s a disgraceful thing to say on a day like today, because we had a free vote in Parliament – there wasn’t a party line”.
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But during the debate, a wide range of MPs from all parties including main opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke out against air strikes.
