Cyprus the likely launchpad as UK bombs Syria

Cyprus was the likely launchpad for strikes conducted by the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force against Islamic State targets in Syria on Saturday night.

The British government announced late on Saturday that four Typhoon fighter jets, supported by a Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker, “joined French aircraft in a joint strike” on an underground facility, which it said was located “in the mountains some miles north of the ancient site of Palmyra” in central Syria.

“Our aircraft...