UK strikes IS targets in Iraq

November 24, 2015 00:17

Britain's Royal Air Force has released details of a series of strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, as Prime Minister David Cameron said he believed the UK should join France in bombing the terrorist group in Syria.

Two Tornado GR4 jets used bombs to destroy an armed vehicle and a stockpile of home-made explosives yesterday, the UK Ministry of Defence said.

Reaper drones also carried out strikes targeting a "large group of terrorists" at a weapons cache, officials said. The strikes come as Cameron said he believed the UK should join France and other nations in bombing the IS in Syria too.

"I firmly support the action that [French] President Hollande has taken to strike ISIL in Syria and it is my firm conviction that Britain should do so too. Of course that willbe a decision for Parliament to make," he said.

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