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"Last night we
saw the Typhoons in action for the first time, successfully
hitting an oil field, oil well heads in eastern Syria out in the
Omar field," Fallon told Sky News.
British lawmakers approved the bombing of Islamic State targets
in Syria on Thursday. Hours after that approval, British bombers
struck the oilfields that the government says are being used to
fund attacks on the West.
The Typhoon fighter bombers had only arrived at Britain's
airbase in Akrotiri, Cyprus on Thursday, bolstering its strike
force of Tornado warplanes.
Fallon was speaking during a visit to the British airbase in
Cyprus.
(Reporting by James Davey; Editing by Tom Heneghan)
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