Australia considers launching airstrikes into Syria

“As they continue to progress, they are building regional coalitions specifically with local Arab forces committed to defeating ISIL and expelling them from these lands”, Ryder said. The Assad government also tolerates US-led airstrikes over Syria on the basis that the coalition is not targeting government troops.

“(Islamic State) operate across the border between Iraq and Syria so we won’t rule anything out at the moment”, he told ABC radio in Melbourne.

The DIA report, formerly classified “SECRET//NOFORN” and dated August 12, 2012, was circulated widely among various government agencies, including CENTCOM, the CIA, FBI, DHS, NGA, State Department and others. “It shows that when it comes to ISIS or Daesh what we have to be prepared to do is we’ve obviously got to degrade the caliphate on the ground but we’ve also got to win the online war on this”, he said on Thursday.

Turkish fighter jets were not involved in the manned US air strikes, Turkish security sources said.

The recent announcement by the federal Parliament’s intelligence and security committee, which is being considered by Tony Abbott, then, does not align with any serious or credible strategy in the war against Islamic State.

If we had stayed a little more engaged, I think maybe it (the rise of ISIS) might have been prevented.

Justice Minister Michael Keenan has confirmed to Sky News that eight Australians have had their personal details compromised by I.S. “It was a willful decision to do what they’re doing”. “These Syrian opposition forces are fighting both the brutality of ISIL terrorists and the tyranny of the Assad regime”. It started with the funding of border smuggling and arms mafias, who were joined by various small insurgent groups in the region. Already, those forces have struggled to match the might of the well-funded and heavily armed extremist group. “At this stage we have received no briefing whatsoever about any circumstances which might have changed in Syria”, he told Sky News. She said that if reports of chemical weapons are true, they would further prove that what IS calls warfare is really “just systematic attacks on civilians who don’t accord to their particularly perverse world view”. Some notice of the developments have been taken by retired officials.

The point is that apart from piecemeal efforts to eliminate IS leaders, allied with attempts to bolster the Iraqi military to stand on its own feet, there is no grand design separate from a tactical response to slow IS’s advance west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. More recently retired Ambassador Mk Bhadrakumar has pointed to these developments in his regular column for Rediff, com where he has pointed towards a sequel to this in Afghanistan.

Key in to Ankara’s interest is truly the building personal profile of one’s Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) togerher with its supplied fly, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which generally Turkey dreams of a fork of a given PKK. “If necessary we could use the same aircraft [as used in Syria], but fly over Iraq and Syria”.