Britain carries out first air raids on ISIS in Syria, warning of

The bombers flew several hours on Wednesday evening, returning safely to their forward air base RAF Akritiri, on Cyprus.

“That strikes a very real blow at the oil and the revenue on which the Daesh terrorists depend”, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon told the BBC, using the pejorative Arabic term for IS.

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“There are plenty more of these targets throughout eastern, northern Syria which we hope to be striking in the next few days and weeks”, Sky News quoted Fallon as saying.

Two further Tornado jets and six Typhoon jets left Lossiemouth, Scotland, to join British forces in Cyprus.

 However, many MPs, including seven from Mr. Cameron’s Conservative Party, and commentators remained unconvinced that the government had laid out clear goals for action in Syria and a comprehensive strategy for achieving them.

Corbyn condemned Cameron’s “ill thought-out rush to war” and said his proposals “simply do not stack up”. And are policymakers working on a strategy for what comes after the bombing?

US President Barack Obama on Thursday said that while the United States is sending more forces to combat Islamic State in Iraq, it is not following the model of its 2003 invasion of the country that locked it in violent conflict there for many years.

Following the November 13 Paris attacks that killed 129 civilians, France dropped 20 bombs and struck 30 targets in the Syrian city of Raqqa.

The Parliament in Berlin is also due to decide shortly on Germany joining the military campaign, as proposed by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“It will not make a big operational difference”, said Malcolm Chalmers of the Royal United Services Institute, a research organization specializing in security, according to the Times.

“There will be strong support from our allies because they wanted us to join them in taking this action”. “That’s where they are, that’s where these plots against Britain and other countries in western Europe are being directed from”. So yes, we need troops on the ground, but they’re not going to be ours or American ones.

The oilfield at Omar potentially represents more than 10% of its income, the MoD said.

The government said Thursday that it had already hit key functions at the oilfield.

German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier described the situation as “too risky, and freedom and stability too fragile, for us to counter each other” – an apparent reference to the spat caused by the downing of a Russian plane by Turkey.

British politics is still reeling from the decision in parliament last night to extend airstrikes to Syria.

The RAF has been bombing ISIL targets in Iraq since 2014.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced this week that 200 more special operators will conducts raids in Iraq and Syria and help free hostages.