U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande both welcomed Britain’s involvement.
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Fallon added that the bombing “strikes a very real blow at the oil, and the revenue on which the Daesh terrorists depend”. Ilford North MP Wes Streeting, who voted with Corbyn against military action, said this morning his colleagues who voted with David Cameron had been subject to abuse.
However, Labour was also deeply split on the issue.
“We can not ignore the large numbers of young men and young women brought up in the United Kingdom whose minds have become so poisoned that they not only go to Syria to fight for a perverted vision of Islam, but are prepared to come home to fight the society they grew up in”.
66 Labour MPs voted with the government while seven Conservatives opposed the plans for military action, giving a mjority of over 170.
Britain, which has eight Tornado fighter jets plus drones in the US-led coalition, will now add more jets.
A RAF Tornado takes off from RAF Akrotiri, on the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus on December 3 after the British Parliament voted in favour of joining worldwide air strikes in Syria.
France has asked for our help and solidarity, and I think we have an obligation to stand together, shoulder-to-shoulder, with them and others in opposition to their ideology and brutality.
The MOD tweeted that Britain was also doubling the United Kingdom strike force against ISIS by sending two additional Tornados and six Typhoon jets to the RAF base at Akrotiri.
“They hold us in contempt. They hold our values in contempt. They hold our belief in tolerance and decency in contempt. They hold our democracy, the means by which we will make our decision tonight, in contempt”.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence says its jets struck at oil facilities in Syria, hours after Parliament voted for Britain to join allies in bombarding the Islamic State group.
Carter said the force will be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence and capture IS leaders. My conscience tells me that there can be no doubt that it is in our national interest for action to be taken to stop and degrade ISIL.
The Labour MP said she will be supporting an amendment calling for “a credible global coalition of ground forces predominantly from other Islamic countries” to back up any bombing, should it take place.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, again accused Turkey of profiting from an oil trade with IS.
“There are plenty more of these targets throughout eastern, northern Syria which we hope to be striking in the next few days and weeks”, Fallon said.
From the passionate speeches in the House to the anti-war protesters outside Parliament, the debate recalled Britain’s divisive 2003 decision to join the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on what turned out to be false claims about Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.
The British debate was sometimes bad-tempered as opposition lawmakers demanded Cameron apologize for remarks, reportedly made at a closed-door meeting, in which he branded opponents a “bunch of terrorist sympathizers”.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn opposed the bombing, but was challenged by foreign affairs spokesman Hilary Benn.
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“It’s not part of the Labour party and anyone who’s outside of the Labour party, let us ourselves involve ourselves in a democratic process”. “And what I’ve said is we’re going to continually modify and adjust our strategy based on those things that work and those things that may not work”.
