Targets in the second mission were oil fields as the first target, and the mission involved two Typhoons and two Tornados, Xinhua news agency reported citing BBC.
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Bombing began hours after MPs gave their backing for military action, with the oil fields, which are in eastern Syria, targeted.
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.
Fallon said the decision will make the streets “in Britain safer, as we take the fight to where Daesh (IS) plot attacks on our people and our allies”.
He made no assurances about the length of the campaign, telling them only it was “not going to be short or simple”.
The military officials did not dispute the figure of 70,000, which Mr Cameron said was independently verified by the joint intelligence committee, the group of officials in the cabinet office who oversee the work of Britain’s intelligence agencies.
The latest RAF operations were meant to damage the supply of funds to the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil), also known as Daesh.
Using data collected by Royal Air Force the night before, “the Tornados and Typhoons used Paveway IV guided bombs to hit wellheads, thus cutting off the terrorists’ oil revenue at the very source”, according to the Ministry of Defence.
President Barack Obama last month authorized no more than 50 special operations forces to deploy to northern Syria in a non-combatant, advisory role to help coordinate local ground troops and anti-IS coalition efforts. “But I want you to know also you go with the backing of the government and the people of Britain”. Eight attacks were carried out, and early reports suggest that they were successful.
Across the border in Iraq, an unmanned RAF Reaper drone – flying close support for Kurdish peshmerga ground forces – destroyed an IS truck bomb with a direct hit from a Hellfire missile, the MoD said.
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Syria has been embroiled in a bloody armed conflict for almost five years.
