Overview
- RAF Typhoon FGR4s supported by a Voyager tanker joined French jets on January 3 to target access tunnels at a site north of Palmyra.
- Intelligence identified the subterranean facility as occupied by Daesh and likely used to store weapons and explosives.
- Crews employed Paveway IV precision‑guided bombs to strike multiple tunnel entrances.
- The location was assessed to have no civilian habitation, and all UK aircraft returned safely with no indication of civilian risk.
- Defence Secretary John Healey cast the operation as part of sustained allied efforts to prevent an ISIS resurgence, with a detailed assessment now in progress.