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UK begins air strikes on Syria

Four British Tornado bombers from the RAF Akrotiri air base in Cyprus have struck six targets in oilfields around Deir al-Zawr in eastern Syria

Control and

support for Daesh
(so-called Islamic State)

Oil
fields

Kurdish
control

Coalition
base

UK
base

Russian
base

TURKEY

Diyarbakir

Irbil

Incirlik

Aleppo

Raqqa

RAF Akrotiri

Jabsah

Khmeimim

Mosul

Latakia

SYRIA

Jafra

Hama

Kirkuk

Omar

Homs

Tanak

Deir

al-Zawr

Tikrit

CYPRUS

Ramadi

Palmyra

LEBANON

Al Asad

Damascus

IRAQ

ISRAEL

Habbaniyah

Baghdad

Muwaffaq Salti

JORDAN

Paveway laser-

guided bomb

SAUDI ARABIA

Sources: Associated Press, Reuters

© GRAPHIC NEWS

UK begins air strikes on Syria

Four British Tornado bombers from the RAF Akrotiri air base in Cyprus have struck six targets in oilfields around Deir al-Zawr in eastern Syria

CYPRUS

RAF Akrotiri

Dec 3: First British air strikes against Daesh –
so-called Islamic State

Control and

support for Daesh

Oil fields

Kurdish control

Coalition base

UK base

Russian base

Diyarbakir

Incirlik

TURKEY

Jabsah

Khmeimim

Aleppo

Jafra

Omar

SYRIA

Tanak

Deir

al-Zawr

CYPRUS

LEBANON

IRAQ

Damascus

Al Asad

ISRAEL

Med. Sea

Muwaffaq Salti

100km

JORDAN

SAUDI ARABIA

60 miles

Range:

Speed:

Cost:

1,390km

Mach 1.3

$32-33m each

Tornado GR4

Length:

Aircrew:

16.7m

2

Paveway laser-

guided bomb

Sources: Associated Press, Reuters

© GRAPHIC NEWS

UK begins air strikes on Syria

Four British Tornado bombers from the RAF Akrotiri air base in Cyprus have struck six targets in oilfields around Deir al-Zawr in eastern Syria

CYPRUS

RAF Akrotiri

Dec 3: First British air strikes against Daesh – so-called
Islamic State

Control and

support for Daesh

Kurdish control

Coalition base

Oil fields

UK base

Russian base

TURKEY

Diyarbakir

Incirlik

Khmeimim

Aleppo

Deir al-Zawr

SYRIA

LEB.

Damascus

ISRAEL

Al Asad

Med.

Sea

Muwaffaq Salti

100km

JORDAN

SAUDI

ARABIA

60 miles

Tornado GR4

Paveway laser-guided

bomb

Sources: Associated Press, Reuters

© GRAPHIC NEWS

Graphic shows targets, location of coalition air bases around Syria, and Paveway laser-guided bomb.
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MILITARY

British bombers strike Daesh oil fields

By Duncan Mil

December 3, 2015 - British bombers made their first strikes on Syria on Thursday, just hours after Britain's parliament voted to target Daesh -- so-called Islamic State -- in Syria. Four Tornado bombers took off from the RAF Akrotiri air base in Cyprus and made strikes on six targets in oilfields around Deir al-Zawr in eastern Syria.

Sources
PUBLISHED: 03/12/2015; STORY: Graphic News
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