Just hours after British MPs voted to back operations against the Islamic State, Britain have carried out their first bombing run over Syria.
The British Ministry of Defence has confirmed that Four RAF Tornado jets carried out an airstrike after taking off from the Akrotiri base in Cyprus on Wednesday night.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said that the jets had returned from the “first offensive operation over Syria and have conducted strikes”, while Prime Minister David Cameron said MPs made the “right decision to keep the UK safe.”
MPs in the Commons in London voted 397 to 223 in favour of extending British action against ISIS, with shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn saying: “we never have and we never should walk by on the other side of the road”.
Foreign secretary Philip Hammond said Britain was “safer” following the attacks:
He told Sky News:Â “We are very pleased that a significant number of Labour MPs have voted with the Government tonight so we have got a clear majority across the House of Commons in support of the action that we are now going to be taking to degrade this evil terrorist organisation.”
“Britain is safer tonight because of the decision that the House of Commons has taken.”
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