Syria air strikes: Islamic State threat ‘comes from Syria’

President Barack Obama welcomed the U.K.’s recent vote to authorize airstrikes in Syria, during a phone call with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday.

“We all know this will be a long and challenging fight, but our coalition is united and resolute”, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters at his daily news conference.

“We are intensifying our efforts to shut down ISIS’s effort to finance their reign of terror”, he added.

“Our aircraft then remained on patrol to collect intelligence on possible terrorist positions and be ready to strike any further targets that might be identified in eastern Syria or western Iraq”.

“There will be very strong support from Muslim countries, Gulf countries, that have asked to us to take part in this action as part of a process that will help to deliver the political and diplomatic change that we need in Syria as well”. Now, they suggest that they support something else.

It was the first time Typhoon jets flew missions over Syria.

The Russian allegations came after last week’s downing by Turkey of a Russian warplane near the Syria-Turkey border.

Germany’s government said it planned to send up to six Tornado reconnaissance planes, tanker aircraft and a frigate to help protect the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean, but won’t actively engage in combat.

The Typhoons offer “a significant increase in strike capacity to both the RAF component and the wider coalition air campaign”, the MoD said.

Other allies also moved to get equipment into place. On Wednesday Russia made it personal, saying Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s family was directly profiting from Islamic State oil smuggling.

“For that money the bandits are recruiting mercenaries, buying weapons and staging cruel terror attacks aimed against our citizens, as well as citizens of France, Lebanon, Mali and other countries”, he said.