Bombing Syria: UK Jets Carry Out Second Mission Against Islamic State, As

Britain has carried out its second set of air strikes in Syria since the Parliament backed military action against Islamic State, once again targeting the oil fields controlled by the terror group.

Britain’s Typhoon warplanes and Tornado jets – taking off from a base in Cyprus – have now conducted two rounds of air strikes in Syria against Daesh’s lucrative oil installations.

Four Tornado jets had launched the first air strikes on Thursday, hitting the Omar oil fields in eastern Syria.

Defence secretary Michael Fallon has visited British forces at RAF Akrotiri warning their mission against the so called Islamic State will not be short or simple.

“They’ve been making a lot of money out of oil… and their revenue helps to finance their terrorism in Western Europe and is a threat to us in Britain”.

Pilots and ground crew prepare a Tornado GR4 aircraft at the British Royal Air Force airbase RAF Marham in Norfolk in east England on December 2, 2015.

Previously British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon briefed Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades on Saturday morning, at the Presidential Palace, about the ongoing British operations to combat terrorism.

“A problem they face is that much of their income over the last two years has been through conquest, confiscation and extortion, and those are all one-time things that aren’t sustainable”, said Quinn Mecham, an assistant professor of political science at Brigham Young University.

He said: “The intelligence suggests that British Isis operatives in Syria and Iraq are being tasked to return to the United Kingdom to launch an attack”.

Fallon said the decision will make the streets “In Britain safer, as we take the fight to where Daesh (IS) plot attacks on our people and our allies”.

It follows the deployment of jets to the region following Wednesday’s historic vote in the Commons.

He said Paveway guided bombs were used to hit wellheads in an area where there was “simply infrastructure” and no civilians.

The Free Syrian Army opposition group has claimed British intervention is “just a few more jets” over the course of a long campaign they have been fighting against both regime forces and Islamists.