There are risks associated and it will only work long term with the support of allies inside and outside of Syria and a willingness to provide vastly more aid for reconstruction. He suffered an embarrassing defeat in 2013 when lawmakers rejected a motion backing attacks on the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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“We are already a target and we have got to do something about this now”. “Or do we sit back and wait for them to attack us?”.
He said that attacking IS was not anti-Muslim but “a defense of Islam” against “women-raping, Muslim-murdering, medieval monsters”.
The prime minister was backed by most members of his governing Conservative Party – which holds 330 of the 650 Commons seats – as well as members of the smaller Liberal Democrat party and others.
As far-left political party Left Unity published a list of those who voted for air strikes under the banner “deselect them now”, Mr Livingstone suggested that he would back efforts to remove pro-war MPs.
Mr Fallon said the Tornadoes had been conducting sorties over Iraq on a nightly basis and were authorised to strike targets in Syria once the result of the Commons vote was known.
But Labour’s own chief foreign affairs spokesman Hilary Benn delivered an impassioned speech in favour of bombing, illustrating deep divisions in the party.
“The Omar oil field is one of the largest and most important to Daesh’s financial operations, and represents over 10% of their potential income from oil”, the Defense Ministry said.
The British public is divided over launching the strikes, with a YouGov opinion poll showing voter support for action in Syria had fallen to the lowest level since September 2014, with 48 percent of respondents supporting strikes and 31 percent against.
LONDON-The U.K. has begun airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, only hours after lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of extending Britain’s bombing campaign into the war-torn country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, again accused Turkey of profiting from an oil trade with IS.
Erdogan called the claim “slander” and said Turkey would not “buy oil from a terror organization”.
Britain will bring extra precision firepower to the Syria air campaign but its participation will be no game-changer, according to experts who questioned the effectiveness of coalition air strikes in the war-torn country.
USA special operators will now be ready “on a standing basis” to conduct raids in Iraq and Syria, Carter said Tuesday at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee.
Now there are about 3,500 American troops in Iraq, while Obama last month announced he would be sending about 50 USA troops to Syria.
“They hold us in contempt.
They have been able to attack these terrorists from one side of the border, now they’ve been able to attack some of their key targets on the other side of the border as well”, Mr. Fallon said.
Mr Cameron created controversy from the beginning of the debate after labelling anti-war MPs as “terrorist sympathisers” and repeatedly refusing to apologise.
Al-Thawra, another official newspaper, said Cameron and the House of Commons vaulted “over global legitimacy as usual”.
Mr Livingstone later defended his comments, telling the BBC: “Nobody should be doing abusive tweets or anything like that, but people voicing their genuine belief that they would rather have an MP who supports the leader rather than undermines him should be free to say that”.
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The US said it “looks forward to having United Kingdom forces flying with the coalition over Syria”.
