RAF jets pound ISIS oil field in Syria

The Ministry of Defense has revealed that RAF jets have targeted another oilfield in the course of their second combat mission in Syria. This was the first time that Typhoons and unmanned Reapers were used in the sortie after Britain launched airstrikes against Islamic State targets in the war-torn country.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 5 Dcember 2015.

The airstrike involved Tornado jets that struck the oilfield, in eastern Syria - the objective was to cut off the militant group's financial supply. The aircraft took of from Britain's base in Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon was was there has described the mission as an "impressive achievement".
There were no reports of civilian casualties following the strikes because the targets had been selected to ensure minimum risk to civilians or collateral damage.

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Latvian cargo plane enters British airspace – RAF Typhoons gives chase

A Russian-built cargo plane of Latvia violated British airspace and, as a result, RAF Typhoon jets were scrambled from RAF Coningsby to intercept the Antonov An-26 airliner news.sky.com. The Typhoons threatened to shoot down the plane.

It seems the plane had lost communication with air traffic controllers as it headed towards London. The RAF planes escorted the Russian-built plane to Stansted airport, where it landed at around 5.20pm.
A search of the RAF-Avia plane by the police revealed that the plane was carrying car parts from Reims, France, to Birmingham.
The alarm was raised because the plane that was travelling over the Channel towards Kent did not respond to communications with air traffic control as it entered British airspace.

Incidentally, this incident came even as NATO had reported about "unusual level of air activity" in European airspace. In fact, it had tracked four groups of Russian military aircraft that were carrying out significant military maneuvers over the past two days. The aircraft were strategic bombers, fighters and tanker aircraft and the exercises were over the Baltic Sea, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean and the Black Sea.