Obama rules out Iraqi-style invasion in Iraq, Syria

The 70,000 figure will be crucial when MPs vote tomorrow night on extending RAF bombing raids to attack ISIS in Syria.

Romford MP Mr Rosindell said he voted with the government but he told the Recorder he did it “with some doubts”. Our weaponry has the unique capability to degrade ISIL.

Dunford added that ISIL posed a threat beyond Iraq and Syria to countries such as Egypt, Nigeria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon and Jordan.

An extra two Tornados from RAF Marham in Norfolk are expected to be sent to join eight aircraft already stationed at a British air base in Cyprus. “They are innocent people, innocent children who are being killed”.

Britain needs “to take action now, to help protect us against the terrorism seen on the streets of Paris and elsewhere”, the British leader said.

Since outcomes consistently run contrary to America aims, Iraqis started looking for other more plausible reasons for the apparent failures, namely that they’re not failures at all, but part of a calculated strategy to support ISIS.

Britain has been bombing IS targets in Iraq since late a year ago, but the group’s headquarters is in Raqqa, Syria.

‘We are already bombing Isil in Iraq – it makes no sense not to do so in Syria too. The plan was approved by the German cabinet Tuesday and today it is being debated in the lower house of Parliament.

In a statement that also praised a German government decision to provide 1,200 military personnel to support the fight against the radical group, Obama praised a “special relationship” with Britain “rooted in our shared values and mutual commitment to global peace, prosperity, and security”.

He said the United Kingdom should play a leading role in developing a comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIS, which would require a political settlement, major reconstruction and humanitarian support, and other measures.

Germany has not committed to airstrikes, and its post-World War II constitution hinders it in participating in battle on foreign soil.

Domestically, the vote is a boost for the president, firming up the American-led global coalition in the face of heavy criticism from the administration’s detractors. The president, speaking before he departs the climate summit to return to Washington, stated “it is possible” over the subsequent several many months in that there can be “a shift in calculation in the Russians and a recognition in that it’s time to bring the civil war in Syria to a close”.

There also seems to be a general sense that the Islamic State could not be holding out so well against USA efforts unless the fix was in.

The Islamic State group is “weak” and “almost finished”, and could be defeated in days “if only America would stop supporting them”, said Mustafa Saadi, a Shiite commander in northern Iraq.