UK lawmakers wary of government plan for Syria airstrikes
- 9 years ago
An influential group of lawmakers says launching British airstrikes against Islamic State group militants in Syria would be “incoherent” and ineffective without a plan to end the country’s civil war.
The Foreign Affairs Select Committee has dealt a blow to Prime Minister David Cameron’s attempts to expand British military action against the militants from Iraq into Syria. Cameron and his defense minister, Michael Fallon, have said they favor expanding the strikes to Syria, but only with the approval of Parliament.
In a report published Tuesday, the foreign affairs committee said Russia’s intervention in the conflict in support of Bashar Assad’s government “has complicated even further any proposed action in Syria by the U.K.”
It said that without “a coherent international strategy” to end Syria’s civil war, “taking action to meet the desire to do something is still incoherent.”
The Foreign Affairs Select Committee has dealt a blow to Prime Minister David Cameron’s attempts to expand British military action against the militants from Iraq into Syria. Cameron and his defense minister, Michael Fallon, have said they favor expanding the strikes to Syria, but only with the approval of Parliament.
In a report published Tuesday, the foreign affairs committee said Russia’s intervention in the conflict in support of Bashar Assad’s government “has complicated even further any proposed action in Syria by the U.K.”
It said that without “a coherent international strategy” to end Syria’s civil war, “taking action to meet the desire to do something is still incoherent.”