{"id":673497,"date":"2026-01-04T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673497\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:10:13","slug":"uk-france-bomb-is-arms-bunker-in-syria-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673497\/","title":{"rendered":"UK, France bomb IS arms bunker in Syria \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain and France conducted a joint strike late Saturday against an underground arms cache in Syria used by Islamic State (IS), the U.K. defense ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Air Force Typhoon jets were joined by French aircraft in the strike near the city of Palmyra in central Syria, the ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/strikes-on-daesh\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/strikes-on-daesh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCareful intelligence analysis identified an underground facility, in the mountains some miles north of the ancient site of Palmyra,\u201d the ministry said. The analysis led officials to believe the facility was storing arms and explosives, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aircraft used Paveway IV guided bombs to target a number of access tunnels down to the facility,\u201d the ministry said. The aircraft \u201ccompleted successful strikes,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain and France conducted a joint strike late Saturday against an underground arms cache in Syria used by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,473,393,36,4884,2817,839,54490,1144,712,6500,2004,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-673497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-intelligence","15":"tag-middle-east","16":"tag-multinational-defense-programs","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-syria","20":"tag-tunnels","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115837470286974252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}