The UK's RAF launched its first air strikes over northern Iraq on Tuesday, attacking Islamic State targets and destroying a heavy weapon and armed vehicle, the Ministry of Defence said.
Supporting Kurdish fighters, two Tornadoes flying from Cyprus, dropped a precision guided bomb and fired a missile, The Telegraph reported.
The attack is the first by the RAF since the British parliament voted to authorise British air strikes over the region, along side the United States.
“The RAF were in action today,” the British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, said.
“Halting the advance of [Isis] and helping the Iraqi government turn it back, and helping the Iraqi army and Kurdish forces to do that, is a huge task and is going to be a long campaign," he added.
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