BBC reports:
MPs have overwhelmingly backed UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, after an impassioned 10-hour Commons debate.
Four Tornado jets took off from RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, after the vote. Their destination has not been confirmed.
A total of 66 Labour MPs sided with the government as David Cameron secured a larger than expected Commons majority.
The PM said they had "taken the right decision to keep the country safe" but opponents said the move was a mistake.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn argued that the case for war "does not stack up" - but his party was split, with senior Labour figures, including members of the shadow cabinet voting with the government after they were given a free vote.
The 66 MPs who backed military action was equivalent to 29% of the parliamentary party.
[Editor's Note: For non-Brits, MP="member of parliament"]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @05:30PM
It's not just that.
The west promotes gender equality and (most of us anyhow) respect for peoples differences, free speech democracy etc. These ideas cause minorities (and females) to get ideas above there station (like education) and think they have any rights whatsoever.
This war isn't so much about religion as the leaders losing power of there own people. And they are terrified of that. So they make enemies of the west.
Of course western ground forces bombing suspected terrorists and causing ACCIDENTAL deaths of innocent people does nothing to counter their idiology and propaganda.
However they support INTENTIONAL murder of innocents (women, children and men), if that provokes the west into action it just reinforces there position.