UK confirms joint airstrike focusing on suspected ISIS weapons facility in Syria

British and French warplanes struck an underground facility believed to have been utilized by Islamic State militants to retailer weapons and explosives, the U.Ok. Ministry of Defence confirmed Sunday.

The strike passed off Saturday night in a mountainous area north of Palmyra, in Syria’s Homs province.

In an announcement, the Ministry of Defence mentioned Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 fighter jets, supported by a Voyager refueling tanker, operated with French plane to strike entry tunnels resulting in the underground website.

Paveway IV precision-guided bombs had been additionally used within the operation. 

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An evaluation was ongoing, however preliminary indications advised that the goal was efficiently hit, the ministry mentioned.

Britain and France are companions within the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, which was shaped to fight the extremist group after it had beforehand seized giant areas of Iraq and Syria. 

U.Ok. Secretary of State for Defence Sir John Healey mentioned the strike confirmed Britain’s willpower to forestall any resurgence of Islamic State and to face “shoulder to shoulder with our allies” in opposition to extremist violence within the Middle East.

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Night shot of a Royal Air Force Typhoon. (UK Ministry of Defence)

The operation got here amid continued U.S. navy exercise in Syria, the place American forces have performed counterterrorism missions within the nation.

In December, the Trump administration additionally ordered large-scale U.S. strikes throughout central Syria.

This was in retaliation for an ambush close to Palmyra that killed two U.S. troops and an American civilian interpreter.

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Military forces reportedly performed strikes in Syria on ISIS targets, amid President Donald Trump’s vow of revenge on the fear group for the deaths of two U.S. troopers within the nation final week. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

As beforehand reported by Fox News Digital, in keeping with U.S. Central Command, ISIS stays an lively and protracted menace regardless of sustained stress from coalition forces.

CENTCOM mentioned current U.S. operations within the area have additionally focused infrastructure and weapons websites throughout central Syria.

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“We will not relent,” Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of CENTCOM, mentioned in an announcement on Dec. 30.

“We are steadfast in commitment to working with regional partners to root out the ISIS threat posed to U.S. and regional security.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to the U.Ok. Ministry of Defence for remark.