{"id":351034,"date":"2026-01-04T03:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351034\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:22:08","slug":"british-and-french-aircraft-attack-underground-islamic-state-weapons-store-in-syria-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351034\/","title":{"rendered":"British and French aircraft attack underground Islamic State weapons store in Syria | Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">British and French aircraft have carried out a joint strike on an underground facility in Syria that had been occupied by Islamic State, the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/ministry-of-defence\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Defence<\/a> has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Guided bombs were used to target access tunnels to the site, in the mountainous region near the ancient city of Palmyra in the centre of the country, on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cInitial indications are that the target was engaged successfully,\u201d the ministry said in a statement. Typhoon FGR4 combat jets were used to bomb the target, supported by a Voyager refuelling tanker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The facility had probably been used to store weapons and explosives, and the surrounding area was devoid of civilians, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The defence secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/john-healey\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Healey<\/a>, said the UK was determined to \u201cstand shoulder to shoulder with our allies\u201d to \u201cstamp out any resurgence\u201d of IS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He thanked members of the armed forces involved in the operation \u201cto eliminate dangerous terrorists who threaten our way of life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Western aircraft have been conducting patrols to stop a resurgence of the Islamist militant group that ruled parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/syria\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syria<\/a> until 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British and French aircraft have carried out a joint strike on an underground facility in Syria that had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-351034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}