Led coalition targets ISIS oil facilities in eastern Syria

Britain today began bombing Islamic State strongholds in Syria targeting the oil fields under its control, hours after a crucial parliamentary vote backed military airstrikes against the terror group.

The US-based SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist threats, said “Islamic State (IS) supporters on Twitter erupted in threats toward the United Kingdom and other Western countries” following the vote.

A total of 66 Labour MPs, including several members of the shadow cabinet, voted with the government to back air strikes.

British Tornado jets struck oil fields in eastern Syria on Thursday that help finance the Islamic State group and Germany prepared to send reconnaissance aircraft to the Middle East as coalition forces stepped up efforts to fight the militants.

Cameron said, defending the operation.

RAF Akrotiri has been used as a launchpad for attacks on Islamic State targets in Iraq for just over a year, and late on Wednesday Britain’s parliament broadened its scope for targets within Syria.

The U.K.’s Royal Air Force (RAF) has started airstrikes against the Daesh positions in Syria, British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said Thursday.

Britain will bring extra precision firepower to the Syria air campaign but its participation will be no game-changer, according to experts who questioned the effectiveness of coalition air strikes in the war-torn country.

Eight more planes – two Tornados and six Typhoon fighter planes – were expected to be sent to the Cyprus base to carry out additional attacks.

A Tornado jet takes off from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, as RAF Tornado jets carried out the first British bombing runs over Syria..

“It will not make a big operational difference”.

British Prime Minister David Cameron leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on December 2, 2015 …

Tim Eaton and Chris Phillips of foreign affairs think-tank Chatham House accused ministers of “knee-jerk reactions… not part of a well-considered long-term strategy to defeat and degrade IS”. That is because ISIL can not be defeated from the air alone, as even supporters of air strikes acknowledge, and because ISIL’s success depends on the vacuum created from a multi-sided civil war.

France, Russia and the United States are already bombing militants in Syria.

It set a fixed calendar for a ceasefire followed by a transitional government in six months and elections one year later.

Britain has launched its first airstrike against ISIS in Syria after MPs voted overwhelmingly to authorize military action.

The last major attack on British soil was the July 7, 2005 bombings in which 52 people died.

Initial analysis showed the strikes had been successful, the statement said.

Cameron, during the debate, stressed on the terror threat from the ISIS. Isil have brutally murdered British hostages, they have inspired the worst terrorist attack against British people since 7/7 on the beaches of Tunisia, and they have plotted atrocity after atrocity on the streets here at home.