Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4s have conducted a mission with French aircraft in a joint strike against an subterranean weapons facility in Syrian territory used by the Daesh militant organization, as stated by the UK's MoD.
The location, located using surveillance, was thought to be housing weapons and explosive materials, the announcement noted, and was located in hills just to the north of Palmyra in central Syria.
"Our fighter planes utilized precision-guided Paveway IV munitions to target a several approach shafts leading to the facility... preliminary assessments indicate the objective was successfully hit," the ministry announced.
There was no evidence of any civilian impact in the strike on Saturday evening and every plane involved returned safely, the defence officials confirmed.
The Typhoon fighters were supported by a Voyager tanker plane.
Daesh - alternatively referred to as Daesh - enforced extremist governance over parts of Iraq and Syria prior to its 2019 collapse.
"This strike underscores our UK leadership, and determination to stand shoulder to shoulder with our partners, to eradicate any resurgence of the terrorist group and their harmful and extremist ideologies in the Middle East," the British Defence Secretary John Healey remarked.
RAF aircraft have conducted overwatch operations over Syrian airspace to "forestall any attempted comeback" of the group after its routing at the Baghuz confrontation in the year 2019, the MoD reported.
"I must thank all the members of British forces participating in this strike for their skill and their courage," Healey added. "Including them were numerous British personnel on duty over the festive period. This mission, to remove dangerous terrorists who pose a risk to our safety, demonstrates how British military are always on standby, throughout the year, keeping Britain secure at home and influential overseas."
In December, the US military carried out what it called a "large-scale strike" targeting IS targets in the country, following an ambush claimed the lives of two US servicemembers and a civilian linguist in the Palmyra area.
The UN reports Islamic State still maintains between 5,000 and 7,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria.
