Targets in the second mission were oil fields as its first strikes, and the mission involved two Typhoons and two Tornados, said the BBC.
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It said Tornado and Typhoon warplanes from Britain’s air base in Akrotiri, Cyprus conducted eight strikes on targets in the Islamic State (IS) controlled oilfield at Omar in eastern Syria.
MPs voted for military action on Wednesday.
The ministry said an unmanned Reaper drone also destroyed an IS truck-bomb south of Sinjar.
“We are very conscious that we are asking our courageous armed forces personnel to risk their safety in order to maintain ours”, defense secretary Michael Fallon told RAF personnel at the Akrotiri air base in Cyprus.
President Obama “expressed his appreciation” that British air forces had joined the coalition in Syria.
“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”, the MoD said.
The work underway at the Shaayrat air base, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of the city of Homs, could also signal Moscow’s intention to step up airstrikes in the country’s central region where the Islamic State group is active.
Activists in the province of Deir Ezzor, most of which is held by Isis except for a small area under regime control, said that coalition airstrikes targeted oil fields in Syria’s eastern desert this morning.
The UK had already been targeting ISIS militants in Iraq.
“The threat from the Daesh [Islamic State] is a threat to Britain”, he said.
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But the Free Syrian Army opposition group has claimed British intervention is “just a few more jets” over the course of a long campaign.
