Hollande would have been greatly relieved on Wednesday when British MPs voted largely in favour of airstrikes after a ten-hour debate in the House of Commons.
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The ministry said aircrew used advanced sensors to assure there were no civilians near the target.
In a statement, Stop the War Coalition spokespeople Andrew Murray and Lindsey German said: “There is no good case for British airstrikes in a war which is already seeing the two major military powers, the USA and Russian Federation, bombing Syria”.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday that the USA military will deploy a new special operations force to be sent to to Iraq to step up the fight against IS militants.
Britain has carried out its first air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria, the Ministry of Defence said today.
The debate saw fierce clashes between the Prime Minister and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn before 104 contributions from the backbenches, as anti-war protests roared outside the Palace of Westminster.
The vote in Parliament came after months of disagreement and comments over Britain’s involvement in fighting terrorism, and was a major victory for the Conservative government of Prime Minister David Cameron.
A total of 66 Labour MPs sided with the government as David Cameron secured a larger than expected Commons majority.
The motion for air strikes was passed by 397 votes to 223.
Protestors demonstrating outside the British parliament building last night.
They claimed two years’ bombing in Iraq showed that IS will not be dislodged by a great-power air war and “none of the wars launched by the United Kingdom and U.S. from Afghanistan in 2001, through Iraq in 2003 to Libya in 2011, has yet ended”.
“These are the aircraft that the coalition have been asking for to help strike these targets in Syria as well as Iraq because of the skill of our pilots and crews but also because of the precision strike weapons that they have”. The MP for Leeds Central made an impassioned plea for his Labour colleagues to back military action, comparing the action against IS to those who joined the International Brigades against Franco, and the House’s united action against Hitler and Nazi Germany.
“What was really important about the vote last night was that it confirmed that Britain is a serious ally”, said Mr Fallon.
The British government on Wednesday voted to authorize military airstrikes against Daesh in Syria – joining an global coalition of nations dedicated to eradicating the worldwide extremist group.
‘These people are not Muslims – they are outlaws from Islam, and we must stand with our Muslim friends here and around the world as they reclaim their religion from these terrorists.
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“We must now confront this evil”.
