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Military officials have been drawing up retaliatory options, including warplanes, drones, troops, and cyberattacks.

Having done all in his power to end the wars he was bequeathed, Barack Obama was more unwilling than any other American leader of recent times to start a new one; and the war on which he opened a new front this week, authorising warplanes, drones and cruise missiles to strike Isis positions in Syria, is by some measure the most delicate military operation of recent times.

The Pentagon said warplanes, drones and Tomahawk missiles were used in the attacks, which targeted several areas including IS stronghold Raqqa.

American warplanes and drones carried out more than 20 strikes at the weekend near the crucial dam that Isis forces took earlier this month.

The Republican congressman Peter King called Mr Obama "weak" for relying on air strikes conducted by warplanes and drones while refusing to send US ground troops into the region.

With Russian and American planes operating in "increasingly congested" airspace over Syria "military commanders fear a clash of warplanes, helicopters, drones, missiles and artillery" with "global ramifications".

They could order more bombing sorties by coalition warplanes and drones, but that would almost certainly generate a big increase in civilian casualties.

In March, US warplanes and drones bombed a training camp in Somalia, killing more than 100 people in what was probably one of the largest single American military raids in over a decade.

A month after someone from the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, uploaded a video of James Foley, an American freelance journalist, being beheaded, we awoke to the news that American warships, warplanes, and drones had unleashed a major air attack on targets inside Syria.

By John Cassidy September 23, 2014 A month after someone from the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, uploaded a video of James Foley, an American freelance journalist, being beheaded, we awoke to the news that American warships, warplanes, and drones had unleashed a major air attack on targets inside Syria.

US warplanes and drones were also involved in the operation.