RAF Typhoon fighters join attack on IS for first time

The news comes as British jets were reportedly carrying out missions in both Iraq and Syria on Friday. “After almost nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over”.

“We need the office of the leader of the Labour Party to say Momentum is nothing to do with us, it’s nothing to do with the Labour Party”, former shadow cabinet minister Tristram Hunt told Channel 4 News. About 200 more personnel are being added in Iraq.

“If anyone thinks that having committed this bad war crime, the murder of our people, that they are going to get away with some measures concerning their tomatoes or some limits on construction and other sectors, they are sorely mistaken”.

She said: “I believe taking part in an extension of military action without a robust, internationally agreed plan for Syria – including but not restricted to – the defeat of Isil, how we would deal with the aftermath, how we might build a lasting peace and what an exit strategy would be, risks repeating recent history”.

During their call, Obama and Cameron discussed additional steps coalition partners can take to set back and ultimately destroy Daesh, according to the White House.

“First, we will conduct a systematic campaign of airstrikes against these terrorists”.

“It’s not what we do that they oppose, it’s what we are”. “What happens in Syria, in Iraq and what happens to ISIL, also threats to the homeland-all of that has to be a core priority for the administration”. This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven. Ninety-five per cent of these strikes have been carried out by the US. “Cutting off their finances is extremely important to degrading the terrorists, to undermining their campaign in Iraq, and to shrink their operations in eastern Syria”, he said. Now that those teams have completed their work – and Iraq has formed a government – we will send an additional 475 servicemembers to Iraq.

And less than an hour later, British bombers had joined 10 other nations that have already mounted such operations over Syria (although by far the most strikes have been by U.S. planes). “And that is the only solution that will succeed over the long term”.

However, Germany will not join its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies the United States, France and Britain, or Russian Federation, in staging airstrikes. It’s because of who we are in Britain and the West that we have this particular death cult.

Britain began bombing Islamic State strongholds in Syria targeting the oil fields under its control, hours after a crucial parliamentary vote backed military airstrikes against the terror group. I also made clear that America would act as part of a broad coalition.

Meanwhile Syrian president Bashar Assad’s regime has denounced the mission as “noise and propaganda”, claiming that any country that does not co-ordinate its attacks with the government “won’t win the fight against terrorism”.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday no foreign ground troops had been requested from any country and that their deployment would be considered a “hostile act”. It doesn’t represent us assuming a combat role.

Less noticed was the appointment of trusted national security aide Rob Malley to coordinate the administration’s policy against the Islamic State group.

It is instructive that its first air strikes were directed against ISIS oil extraction and refining installations, which provide the terrorist group with most of its revenue.