British bombers hit ISIS oilfields in Syria for 2nd time

He said Britain was sending eight more warplanes to Cyprus to join the missions.

139-a-18-(Jeremy Corbyn, British MP, Labor Party leader, on Parliament floor, provided by the Parliamentary Recording Unit)-“further against it”-Britain’s opposition Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposals for military action against Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq “simply do not stack up”.

Over the past 16 months, the US-led coalition has conducted 3,000 strikes exclusively on Islamic State sites in Syria, destroying or damaging 16,000 targets.

The expansion of British airstrikes into Syria likely will have little impact on the day-to-day operational tempo of Royal Air Force pilots already flying missions over Iraq.

But experts question how much Britain, which has been wary of joining foreign conflicts in recent years after unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, would add to the campaign against IS in Syria.

They provided close air support to Iraqi forces engaged in combat with Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh, in and around Ramadi.

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 Islamic State militants. The vote on Thursday for military action gives him a chance to restore some of Britain’s global clout.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter, Oct. 23, 2015, following the death of Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler in a raid to free Islamic State hostages in Iraq: “We’ll do more raids”. An overall majority of 174 represents the clear political mandate to extend the air campaign that the prime minister has wanted for months and does something to erase the humiliation of his failure to win Commons support for airstrikes against the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, in 2013.

“And more broadly, over 40 nations have offered to help in this comprehensive effort to confront this terrorist threat – to take out terrorist targets; to train and equip Iraqi and Syrian opposition fighters who are going up against ISIL on the ground; to cut off ISIL’s financing; to counter its hateful ideology; and to stop the flow of fighters into and out of the region”.

The Russian and Turkish foreign ministers met in Belgrade on the sidelines of the OSCE meeting – the first senior-level meeting since the incident – but the exchange was frosty.

Russia’s Sergei Lavrov said he had heard nothing new from Mevlut Cavusoglu. An impromptu Economist poll published Thursday shows that of those surveyed, 47 percent are against the air strikes, 42percent are in favor and 11 percent are undecided.

Simultaneously, the RAF provided air support to Kurdish security forces in north-west Iraq, who are continuing to fight IS (Daesh) extremists in the country.

“Asked later if he meant Western ground forces, Kerry said: “(I’m) talking about Syrian and Arab, as we have been consistently”.

“The RAF Tornado and Reaper aircraft that have been conducting air strikes against Daesh (a derogatory Arabic term for ISIS) have now been reinforced by a detachment of Typhoon fighters, which carry the same Paveway IV precision guided bombs as the Tornados”.

Turkey shot down the Russian plane that had reportedly strayed into its airspace and ignored repeated warnings. Moscow says it was shot down over Syria unprovoked.

But Labour MPs called for Mr Corbyn to publicly distance himself from Momentum.