Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron makes a statement to the media
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron makes a statement to the media following the killing of Scottish aid worker David Haines, at Number 10 Downing Street in London September 14, 2014. Cameron chaired a meeting of the government's emergency response committee on Sunday under growing pressure to sanction air strikes after an Islamic State video showed the beheading of a British hostage. Reuters/Stringer

The U.K. has joined the U.S. campaign to fight the Islamic State and launched its first set of airstrikes on Syria.

The airstrikes indicated European unity against the extremist group after the deadly Paris attacks on Nov. 13. Hours after the parliamentary voting on Wednesday , when 397 British MPs supported the U.S.-led campaign against ISIS and 223 members refuted the notion, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron planned to launch airstrikes on Syria, shifting its focus from Iraq for the time being.

A source from the Ministry of Defence confirmed that British Tornado jets took flight from the Royal Air Force base in Akrotiri in Cyprus on Thursday before dawn. Initially, the U.K. struck an oil field controlled and managed by the IS militants, which offered significant fund to the group.

The Ministry of Defence told CNN that there were four jets that took off from the airbase with an aim of hitting the IS-managed oil field in Eastern Syria. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon confirmed that there were eight more jets, including two Tornados and six Typhoons, to depart from the airbase for further attacks.

“There are plenty more of these targets throughout eastern, northern Syria which we hope to be striking in the next few days and weeks,” Sky News quoted Fallon as saying. The Typhoons have already bid goodbye to RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland, to join the existing warplanes in Syria.

Britain's airstrikes contribute only a small portion of the U.S.-led Operation Inherent Resolve. The next emphasis is on the German Parliament, which the U.S. expects to join the revolt against the ISIS.

U.S. President Barack Obama praised the move of Britain and claimed that the coalition would surely work “to integrate them into our coalition air tasking orders as quickly as possible.”

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