He told Sky News: “Last night we had the Tornados in action, the Typhoons in action and our unmanned Reapers in action – all of them striking [IS] where it hurts”.
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British lawmakers approved the bombing of IS targets in Syria on Wednesday.
The controversial vote was won by 174 votes, with Britain launching the first round of strikes against Isis within hours of securing the Commons approval.
Speaking at RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus where the United Kingdom strike force is based, Mr Fallon said future missions would see them attack IS’s headquarters and its command and control structure.
The jets took off from Britain’s base in Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri, where Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has been visiting troops.
Coalition aircraft carried out two strikes against an oil field well head near Abu Kamal, Syria, and six strikes against an oil and gas separation plant near Dayr az Zawr, Syria, the statement by the coalition said.
He emphasized there were no civilian casualties in the bombing, and the United Kingdom had been careful with hitting targets. The RAF has been conducting air strikes on IS targets in Iraq since 2014.
Fallon was speaking during a visit to RAF Akrotiri, where he thanked military personnel for their commitment to tackling the terrorist threat in Syria and Iraq. And it derives from Syria.
He says the fight against IS will not be “either short or simple”.
“It’s not what we do that they oppose, it’s what we are”.
Meanwhile, The Guardian reported that one of the Paris gunmen had travelled to London and Birmingham earlier this year, before returning to the continent.
He said the expansion of the strike force had been “seamless” and that their work was valued by Parliament and the people of the UK.
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Abaaoud, 27, a Belgian national of Moroccan descent, is thought to have led 10 other Islamist extremists in the gun and suicide bomb attacks in the French capital last month.
