UK confirms joint airstrike targeting suspected ISIS weapons facility in Syria

British and French warplanes struck an underground installation believed to person been utilized by Islamic State militants to store weapons and explosives, the U.K. Ministry of Defence confirmed Sunday.

The onslaught took spot Saturday evening successful a mountainous portion northbound of Palmyra, successful Syria’s Homs province.

In a statement, the Ministry of Defence said Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 combatant jets, supported by a Voyager refueling tanker, operated with French craft to onslaught entree tunnels starring to the underground site.

Paveway IV precision-guided bombs were besides utilized successful the operation. 

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Royal Air Force Typhoon craft preparing for take-off for Syria strike. (UK Ministry of Defence)

An appraisal was ongoing, but archetypal indications suggested that the people was successfully hit, the ministry said.

Britain and France are partners successful the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, which was formed to combat the extremist radical aft it had antecedently seized ample areas of Iraq and Syria. 

U.K. Secretary of State for Defence Sir John Healey said the onslaught showed Britain’s determination to forestall immoderate resurgence of Islamic State and to basal "shoulder to enarthrosis with our allies" against extremist unit successful the Middle East.

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

The cognition came amid continued U.S. subject enactment successful Syria, wherever American forces person conducted counterterrorism missions successful the country.

In December, the Trump medication besides ordered large-scale U.S. strikes crossed cardinal Syria.

This was successful retaliation for an ambush adjacent Palmyra that killed 2 U.S. troops and an American civilian interpreter.

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Military forces reportedly conducted strikes successful Syria connected ISIS targets, amid President Donald Trump's vow of revenge connected the panic radical for the deaths of 2 U.S. soldiers successful the state past week.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, according to U.S. Central Command, ISIS remains an progressive and persistent menace contempt sustained unit from conjugation forces.

CENTCOM said caller U.S. operations successful the portion person besides targeted infrastructure and weapons sites crossed cardinal Syria.

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"We volition not relent," Adm. Brad Cooper, commandant of CENTCOM, said successful a connection connected Dec. 30.

"We are steadfast successful committedness to moving with determination partners to basal retired the ISIS menace posed to U.S. and determination security."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the U.K. Ministry of Defence for comment.