One of ISIS’ prominent leaders, Tariq bin Tahar-Al-Awni-al-Harzi, has been killed in a USA military drone airstrike.
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Coalition nations conducting airstrikes in Iraq include the United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Jordan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
“The PM has long thought that Isil poses a threat to Britain and Isil needs to be destroyed in Syria as well as in Iraq”, she said.
Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis stated that al-Harzi was killed in the northern city of Shaddadi on June 16 by a USA military drone airstrike, according to Arutz Sheva.
But he believed there was a legal case to take such action, she said, saying Britain was already flying drones and planes over Syria to gather intelligence that could be used in any future strikes.
He also helped fighters from Europe to get to Syria via Turkey.
Kurdish forces, whose commanders say they aren’t getting enough assist from the USA and other allies, have been making headway against ISIS.
In the last two days, after the murders in Tunisia and cases of British nationals going to Syria to join militants, Cameron’s defense secretary, Michael Fallon, has floated the idea of fighting the Islamic State in Syria, too, arguing that the group does not recognize any border between Iraq and Syria and that to fight it in only one country is illogical.
High-level officials from Gulf and other states have said that all attempts have failed to persuade Mr Obama of the need to arm the Kurds directly as part of more vigorous plans to take on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). The Treasury statement identified him as the Islamic State group’s “amir of suicide bombers”, saying he recruited foreign fighters for suicide attacks in Iraq and Syria. His younger brother was detained in Tunisia for a while in connection with the killing of the US ambassador in Libya, Christopher Stevens.
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The Telegraph quoted anonymous Arab officials as saying they are now willing to “go it alone” in supplying heavy weapons to the Kurds “even if means defying the Iraqi authorities and their American backers, who demand all weapons be channeled through Baghdad”.
