Cameron: United Kingdom must strike IS in Syria
“We are talking about coordination of methods and exchange of intelligence”, a French diplomat said Monday on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to publicly discuss the subject.
“Today I offered France the use of RAF Akrotiri for French aircraft engaged in anti-ISIL operations and additional assistance with air-to-air refueling”, he said.
Sunday night, police said that Salah Abdeslam, one of the main suspects of the Paris attacks, was not among those held.
The Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) is also expected to reveal that the expected cost of renewing the UK’s nuclear deterrent has risen – with the SNP warning against cutting the number of anti-submarine frigates to be built in Scotland to compensate. The search to find Abdesalam and find out who his accomplices are comes as France deploys its military assets to take on ISIL.
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to devise a “comprehensive strategy” to win MPs’ support for bombing ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq.
French President Francois Hollande has said his country will intensify air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and Iraq.
Cameron and Hollande also visited the Bataclan Theater to honor the 89 people who were killed there during the Paris attacks a little more than a week ago.
The review aims to maintain Britain’s ability to go war but also “safeguard British society more efficiently from terrorist attack”, he added.
A week of frantic global diplomacy was under way with French President Francois Hollande set to meet all five permanent members of the UN Security Council, and the United States trying to rally support for a ceasefire in Syria.
No explosives or weapons have yet been found in the 19 raids carried out across Brussels, including the area of Molenbeek where members of ISIS planned the Paris attacks.
“I think it actually will bring Britain and France and the world together in defence of our values and recognising that we will never let these people beat us, indeed we will come together and make sure that we beat them”.
To fund the extra spending, however, it was feared Cameron would be forced to announce cuts to administrative and backroom staff, which the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union said it would strongly oppose.
“We have to defeat this evil”.
“We are convinced that we have to keep striking Daesh (Arabic acronym for Islamic State) in Syria”.
Cameron was defeated in the Commons in 2013 when MPs voted down military action in Syria against the Assad regime, and Osborne said a repeat of that defeat would be a hugely damaging “PR coup” for ISIS. There is a coalition of 60 nations already doing that in Syria, ” Eagle told the Guardian.