Four Tornado jets took off from a base in Cyprus shortly after the vote to carry out the strikes, the BBC reported, citing the Defense Ministry.
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In a statement Thursday, the president said the British vote to begin airstrikes in Syria – and an upcoming German vote Friday to take part in the operation – were a sign that Europeans would stand together after the Islamic State attacks that killed 130 people in Paris.
Another group that tracks Syria’s war, the Local Coordination Committees, said warplanes struck areas near the Milh and Omar oil fields in Deir el-Zour.
British members of the Parliament (MPs) clashed bitterly in a whole day of heated debate in the House of Commons over whether to extend British airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS) targets to Syria.
Speaking after the vote, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: “Britain is safer because of the actions taken by MPs today”.
British bombers have attacked oilfields in eastern Syria, Defence Minister Michael Fallon says, hours after parliament approved the bombing of Islamic State targets in the country.
He told the BBC: “They have been able to attack these terrorists on one side of the border”.
Jeremy Corbyn called for respect for MPs from his party who supported the bombing, after reports that activists, who are overhwelmingly opposed to the air strikes, were moving against them.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said the planes had conducted strikes in Syria, and details about their targets would be provided later.
“It would be a relatively simple exercise to extend the permissions to allow them to release those weapons over Syria, where they identify legitimate targets”, he added.
Prime minister David Cameron secured the strong mandate he had sought with 397 MPs voting in favour and 223 against, a majority of 174, after more than 10 hours of passionate and often angry debate.
The Typhoons have left RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland, to join the air strikes.
A YouGov opinion poll showed voter support for military action in Syria had fallen to the lowest level since September 2014, with 48 per cent of respondents supporting strikes and 31 per cent opposing.
Mr Johnson, a former home secretary, said he believed IS had to be “confronted and destroyed if we are to properly defend our country and our way of life”.
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“The rules of engagement that our crews apply both in the air and by the commanders on the ground mean that I am absolutely confident that that will continue to be the case with operations in Syria”.
