In Syria, it is an endless fight against terrorism that is being played out, strike after strike. On the evening of Saturday January 3, the United Kingdom and France carried out a joint air offensive against an underground facility suspected of housing weapons and explosives of the Islamic State (IS) organization. According to the British Ministry of Defense, guided bombs were used to target several access tunnels leading to a structure in the mountains just north of the historic town of Palmyra.
The operation was carried out by British fighter planes, the Typhoons, and French planes (the nature of which was not specified by the army general staff). The Royal Air Force (RAF) operated from the base at Akrotiri, on the British territory of the island of Cyprus. France, for its part, relied on its units deployed in the United Arab Emirates (on base 104 located very close to Abu Dhabi) and in Jordan (on base H5, a few kilometers from the Syrian border). The strikes took place very early in the evening. According to the British Ministry of Defence, initial indications suggest that the target was “hit successfully”.
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