Joint Anglo-French Airstrike Strikes Islamic State Weapons Depot in the Syrian region

Royal Air Force Typhoon jets have conducted a mission with France's air force in a coordinated attack targeting an underground arms cache in Syrian territory used by the IS group, per a report from the UK's MoD.

The location, located using reconnaissance, was thought to be storing arms and explosives, the release indicated, and was located in hills just to the north of Palmyra in Syria's central region.

"Our fighter planes employed precision-guided Paveway IV munitions to hit a several approach shafts providing entry to the site... preliminary assessments are that the objective was successfully hit," the ministry announced.

There was no indication of any civilian impact in the strike conducted Saturday night and every plane involved returned safely, the MoD added.

The Typhoon fighters were backed up by a Voyager tanker plane.

The Islamic State group - also known as ISIS - enforced extremist governance over parts of both Syria and Iraq prior to its 2019 collapse.

"This action shows the UK's leading role, and commitment to operate in unison with allied nations, to eliminate any re-emergence of Daesh and their harmful and extremist ideologies in the Middle East," the British Defence Secretary the Defence Secretary stated.

RAF aircraft have conducted patrols over Syrian airspace to "forestall any efforts to regroup" of the group following its defeat at the Baghuz confrontation in the year 2019, the MoD reported.

"I extend gratitude to every member of our armed forces involved in this operation for their expertise and their bravery," Healey commented. "Including them were numerous British personnel deployed over the festive period. This action, to take out dangerous terrorists who threaten our way of life, shows how UK forces are prepared to act, continuously, keeping Britain secure domestically and strong abroad."

During December, the American forces conducted what it called a "large-scale strike" on IS targets in the country, after an attack resulted in the deaths of two American soldiers and a civilian linguist in Palmyra.

The UN says Daesh still maintains between 5,000 and 7,000 militants in Iraq and Syria.