UK joins campaign against ISIS in Syria

Parliament voted 397-223 in favor of joining the U.S. in air strikes against ISIS.

Anti-war protesters outside Parliament booed as they learned the result of the vote. Britain’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Westmacott is in our studios. Prime Minister David Cameron himself warned against quick expectations.

Russian troops, meanwhile, have moved to fortify their positions in Syria expanding a military base, adding fortifications and developing its runways in a sign they intend to use it as their second air base in the country, Syrian activists said Thursday.

Mr Fallon confirmed that he personally approved the targets in the Omar oil field before Wednesday night’s House of Commons vote, and gave final permission for the raid to go ahead after MPs had given their approval for the extension of air strikes from Iraq into Syria. “This is going to take time”, Cameron said.

The first two jets took off around 2330 GMT followed by two more an hour later, each carrying three precision-guided 500lb (226kg) Paveway bombs and returning without them, the BBC reported. That’s a big part of what we’re trying to do to degrade the organization. He said Britain was sending eight more warplanes to Cyprus to join the missions. So we’re making a significant increase in the aircraft contribution that we have got to the campaign against ISIL.

“The goal…is to fight and contain IS, and destroy their safe havens and their ability to lead worldwide terror operations”, she told reporters in Berlin before heading to Ankara for talks with her Turkish counterpart.

“It will be just a few more jets, (which have been) flying across Syria and hitting Isis for more than a year”, Mr al-Reis said.

WESTMACOTT: Chemical weapons, yeah – that was the – that was, if you’d like an important moment.

Cameron has long wanted to target ISIL in Syria, but had been unsure of getting majority support in the House of Commons until now.

“I am always anxious that the greatest oratory can lead us into the greatest mistakes”, he said.

However, Boris Johnson, mayor of London, believes that British air strikes in Syria will not solve anything according to The Telegraph. The terrorists don’t recognize the border.

Although the British vote adds negligible new military capability to the coalition, it took on outsized political and diplomatic significance since gunmen and bombers killed 130 people last month in Paris.

The official said U.S. Special Forces have not yet been ordered to conduct any so-called “accompanied missions” alongside friendly forces on the ground in Syria. The prime minister of Iraq has made clear he doesn’t want to have the foreign troops on the ground. Syrian opposition figures have called this unrealistic.

“The strikes actually help to bring about a political settlement because of course the strikes take the action to Daesh which is everybody’s enemy and we do need to have a moderate opposition in Syria that can be part of a future government of Syria”.

“But, as we have both said many times, abuse and intimidation have no place in politics”.