United Kingdom supports ‘Operation Inherent Resolve,’ conducts airstrikes in Syria for the

Rather than the bombing raid which immediately followed Wednesday’s House of Commons vote authorising action in Syria, two RAF Tornado fighter jets flew an armed patrol over the east of the country “gathering intelligence on terrorist activity”, the Ministry of Defence said.

The latest RAF operations were meant to damage the supply of funds to the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil), also known as Daesh.

“We are going to need to be patient and persistent because this is going to take time”. They were using Paveway munitions in an area of oil fields where there was simply oil infrastructure in eastern Syria, a long way from Raqqa itself, down near Iraq.

This week UK MPs voted 397 to 223 to approve David Cameron’s plans to launch air strikes on the terror group’s forces in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

The U.S.-led coalition carried out 26 airstrikes against ISIS militants on Thursday, targeting oil production in Syria and supporting the Iraqi effort to retake the city of Ramadi, the military said in a statement on Friday.

Two more Tornados and six Typhoons have arrived at RAF Akrotiri, in Cyprus, from where they will join the attacks.

He 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”.

Nevertheless, this does not make a large difference to the combined firepower of the anti-IS coalition, according to Justin Bronk, a research analyst in military sciences at RUSI.

The British fighters will be working in coordination with over half a dozen allied nations fighting Islamic State in Syria, including France, the US, Australia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, after joining the fight against the group in Iraq past year.

“President Bashar al-Assad is the president of the Syrian Arab Republic”.

The decision to extend bombing to Syria divided the opposition Labour Party, opposed by its leader Jeremy Corbyn but supported by its foreign affairs spokesman Hilary Benn in a passionate speech in parliament.

Just under a third of Labour members of parliament defied Corbyn to vote for action.

He told the BBC: “They have been able to attack these terrorists on one side of the border”.

“Now I share the concerns that have been expressed this evening about potential civilian casualties”.

“We know who in Turkey are filling their pockets and allowing terrorists to earn money by selling oil stolen from Syria”, Putin said in his state of the union address.