United Kingdom leader offers direct signal supporting strikes on Syria
Parliament voted against attacks in Syria in 2013.
But in Syria the RAF’s role is limited to supporting US-led strikes – for example providing mid-air refuelling and surveillance.
Asked if he believes that “sooner or later tanks are going to have to roll, there is going to have to be troops on the ground”, he said: “I suspect my bones are telling me that”.
Cameron said, “we have to destroy this caliphate, whether it is in Iraq or in Syria”.
And that, he said, means more than just “hammering” ISIS in Iraq and helping the U.S.in Syria. “We know that we have to defeat IS, we have to destroy this caliphate”.
The BBC quoted Cameron, as saying that he wanted the United Kingdom to do more, and added that he needed to “take parliament with him”.
“We’re talking and discussing at the moment, with the opposition parties in Britain, about what more we can do”.
The Labor Party, which is in the midst of a leadership contest, did not immediately reply to requests for comment.
“We must deglamorize the extremist cause, especially ISIL”, Cameron is planned to say in the prepared remarks, excerpts from which were released by his office. “This isn’t a pioneering movement but vicious, brutal, fundamentally abhorrent”.
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He is expected to say: “British values are our strongest weapon in the battle against the twisted narrative of Islamist extremists”.
Leaflets bearing drawings of dead extremists and a message promising freedom to the region showered the de facto capital of the Islamic State group in Syria Sunday.
He said it would find ways to ensure ” more people from ethnic minority backgrounds… feel they have a stake in our society” and persuade young people “they can shape the future by being an active part of our great democracy”. Four fighters with the main Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, walked down a street in the picture, with two words in Arabic below translated as “Freedom will come”.
The YPG in late June captured Ain Issa, a strategic town that lies 30 miles north of Raqqa and contains roads leading toward IS-controlled territories to the east, in Hassakeh province, and to the west, in Aleppo province.