Uk launches airstrikes against isis in syria targets oil fields

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.

It follows a torrent of abuse suffered by Walthamstow Labour MP Stella Creasy in the wake of the Commons vote on air strikes in Syria.

Twenty of his party members joined three Plaid Cymru MPs in rejecting the plan, while one did not vote through illness.

Even MPs from the opposition Labour party vote in favour of the Anti-Daesh airstrikes despite the calls from their leader, Jeremy Corbyn, not to approve the bombings.

Similarly, Gavin Williamson (South Staffs), Mark Pritchard (Wrekin) Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford), Amanda Milling (Cannock), Bill Cash (Stone) and Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) all backed the government.

Labour grandee Alan Johnson took a swipe at the Labour leadership and said: “I find this decision as hard as anyone to make – I wish I had the self-righteous certitude of our finger jabbing representatives of our new and kinder type of politics who will no doubt soon be contacting those of use who support this motion tonight”. “This is something I have thought about very carefully”.

He added: “I say the threat is now and there are rarely, if ever, flawless circumstances in which to deploy military forces”. “I hate terrorism and I doubt if there is a single MP who thinks otherwise”.

Four RAF jets have bombed an ISIS-controlled oil field overnight as Britain doubles its strike force with 8 more jets.

The British Ministry of Defence said on its Twitter feed that British jets had hit al-Omar oil fields as part of the campaign against IS.

The decision to bomb Syria is a unsafe one which flies in the face of public opinion, says the anti-war lobby.

In a rebuff to Mr Corbyn’s hard-Left politics he said that Labour has “always been defined by our internationalism” and appealed on the party to remember the spirit of those who went to fight against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War.

Speaking Tuesday, Corbyn admonished those who suggested that he is a “terrorist sympathiser” and highlighted that strike action against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq by the U.S, France, Britain, Russia and other powers has had little effect.

“We should answer the call from our allies”.

A statement from the Elysee Palace said: “The President of the Republic salutes the first British air operations over Syria this morning after yesterday’s vote obtained a large majority in parliament”. At the moment, there is an artificial line in the sky which means that, on the Iraqi side, we can target Daesh but, on the Syrian side, we cannot.

He said: “I can not believe us stopping air strikes against Daesh in Raqqa for so long as they represent a threat to us, a threat to British citizens and a threat to the British homeland”.

Following Wednesday’s divisions in Parliament, Mr Fallon said: “We ended up with a strong and very decisive vote in favour of action and I hope everybody now will rally round that action and support the RAF in their efforts to keep our country safe”.