Obama, British PM speak after London OKs Syria strikes

“During the evening of Friday, December 4, Tornado GR4s and Typhoon FGR4s based at RAF Akrotiri conducted a further series of strikes on targets in the very large Daesh-controlled oilfield at Omar in eastern Syria”, a spokesman said on Saturday.

At the same time, an unmanned but armed RAF Reaper drone destroyed an IS truck bomb in northern Iraq.

But despite strong support for the air strikes among MPs, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called the campaign an “ill-thought-out rush to war”.

During a visit to Bulgaria, Mr Cameron said: “We’ve now got more Tornados and more Typhoons in Cyprus ready to take action both over the skies of Iraq and over the skies of Syria because we have to defeat Daesh wherever it is”. And it derives from Syria.

France welcomed the first British airstrikes in Syria, saying they are a sign of the European solidarity promised after the deadly November 13 attacks on Paris claimed by IS militants. “We face a new kind of enemy that makes no demands, takes no hostages, doesn’t want to negotiate”. We are people who choose our Government, accept a rule of law, tolerate other religions.

And in a continuation of operations in Iraq two Tornados “silenced” a “terrorist” sniper team with a “direct hit” from a Paveway IV guided bomb, the MoD added.

The unnamed terrorist was said to have met people “suspected of having the intention and capability of plotting or assisting terrorist activity” in the UK. “They’ve been making a lot of money out of oil”, said Fallon.

He told U.S. broadcaster CNN he had spoken to an unnamed “senior European counter-terrorism official” who received intelligence that Isis was “aiming to hit the United Kingdom next”.