UK Conducts First Airstrikes Against IS Targets in Iraq: Reports

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British Tornado fighter jets have conducted first airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Iraq, Reuters reported Tuesday citing the UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon.
According to the report, the British jets have attacked a heavy weapons position and an IS armed pick-up truck and returned to their base.
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On September 26, the British parliament voted in favor of UK airstrikes against the IS militants in Iraq as part of the international effort to curb the advance of the terrorist group across the Middle East. A poll by YouGov released last week has shown that 57 percent of Britons supported this step.
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), is a Sunni extremist group which has seized vast territories in Iraq and Syria.

On September 10, US President Barack Obama announced his decision to form an international anti-IS coalition and conduct airstrikes against IS positions in Syria, while continuing airstrikes against the group’s targets in Iraq, which he authorized earlier in August.