Britain sends 8 more warplanes to Cyprus for Syria air strikes

RAF Tornado jets have carried out the first British bombing runs over Syria, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.

Asked whether the UK’s involvement in military action in Syria would make Britain a target, Mr Fallon told ITV1’s Good Morning Britain: “The sad news is we are already a target…” All airstrikes in the past have flown to Iraq.

No more details were immediately available.

Following the November 13 Paris attacks that killed 129 civilians, France dropped 20 bombs and struck 30 targets in the Syrian city of Raqqa. Moscow, however, maintained that its bombing campaign in Syria – unlike that of the West – is legitimate because Assad had requested it to support Syrian troops’ ground operations.

“The vote, after months of wrangling, hand-wringing and a daylong parliamentary debate, underscored the concerted efforts of Prime Minister David Cameron, whose Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament, to restore Britain’s reputation as a serious global actor”.

The Opposition’s case was wound up by Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn, who held the house in silence with his strongly delivered plea for bombing, and, in fact, performing Mr. Cameron’s job far more effectively.

Fallon told the BBC he had approved the targets before the House of Commons vote on Wednesday evening, and gave permission for the raids to go ahead once MPs had rubberstamped extending airstrikes. “It’s about how best we do that”.

The Warwick and Leamington MP was one of 30 rebel Tories who voted against a Government motion to take military action in Syria in 2013.

However, not everyone in Parliament agreed with these two men.

“We are going to need to be patient and persistent because this is going to take time”.

The vote has blown open deep divisions in the Labour Party with claims that MPs in favour of military action have faced threats of recriminations.

 Britain’s intervention in Syria was welcomed by the United States and Russian governments.

“British service men and women will now be in harm’s way and the loss of innocent lives is sadly nearly inevitable”, he said, criticising the prime minister’s “rush to war”.

Cameron spoke of the “very real” threat of ISIS, which has proven its ability to strike multiple nations. It didn’t take long for Corbyn to mock that statement and call for an apology. This is the equivalent of 5 million British people turning against bombing Syria. “Concerned citizens or terrorist sympathisers?”

The vote left Labour divided with MPs supporting the Government.

Despite Corbyn’s protests, the vote is over.