British and French warplanes strikes central Syria

British and French warplanes carried out an airstrike in central Syria on an underground facility where members of the Islamic State group are suspected to have stored weapons and explosives, the British defence ministry said Sunday.

The strikes occurred Saturday evening on the



structure in the mountains just north of the historic town of Palmyra in the country’s Homs province, the ministry’s statement said.

Britain and France are part of the US-led coalition that has been fighting IS militants for more than a decade.