Tornadoes have been sent from RAF Marham in Norfolk.
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“Carefully selected elements of the oilfield infrastructure were targeted, ensuring the strikes will have a significant impact on Daesh’s ability to extract the oil to fund their terrorism”, the statement said.
Four Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter jets were seen taking off from a base in Cyprus and returning without their weapons early Thursday morning.
“We are going to need to be patient and persistent”.
Lavrov, speaking in live televised comments from Belgrade, says Thursday that co-ordinated action from all parties would be needed to shut the border. President Francois Hollande cited specific threats against French interests stemming from IS in Syria. Mr. Cameron, however, refused to apologise.
Over the past 16 months, the US-led coalition has conducted 3,000 strikes exclusively on Islamic State sites in Syria, destroying or damaging 16,000 targets.
Britain has dispatched two additional Tornados and six Typhoons to the region to take part in attacks. Although several of the oil fields have already been hit by the U.S.-led coalition, Britain chose a target with low risk of collateral damage for its first strike in Syria.
Meanwhile the US Secretary of State John Kerry said Syrian and Arab ground forces must be found to take on the jihadist group.
“It is important symbolically, useful operationally, but not transformative”.
“It is in Syria where it pumps and sells the oil that does so much to help finance its evil acts”, Mr Cameron told Parliament on Wednesday ahead of the vote. Syrian opposition figures have called this unrealistic.
Britain’s entry into the air war in Syria against Islamic State is unlikely to drive the militarised cult from its capital at Raqqa city, the countryside around Aleppo or the oil fields in Deir al-Zor province.
The last major attack on British soil was the July 7, 2005 bombings in which 52 people died.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has been weighing such a move since November’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
He said he would allow his party members to vote on the airstrikes according to their conscience.
After the vote, Cameron posted on Twitter that “the house has taken the right decision to keep the country safe”.
“We are developing partnerships, although they are not as strong as we want yet, with local tribes and Sunnis who are willing to fight ISIL”, Obama noted.
British Prime Minister David Cameron urges parliament to approve British air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria.
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