Turkey’s foreign minister has said that the West cannot expect it to lead a military ground operation against the Islamic State in Syria alone.
The US-led coalition have led a series of fresh air strikes on Islamic State (IS) positions surrounding the Kurdish city of Kobane.
David Cameron has said that the UK policy is that “we won’t pay ransoms to terrorists who kidnap our citizens”, but can there ever be a time when paying the ransom is the best course of action?
Turkish MPs have voted to allow its military to enter Iraq and Syria and foreign troops to use its territory to combat the threat of the Islamic State.
The UK’s air assault on Islamic State (IS) began with two RAF Tornado GR4 bombers attacking targets in Iraq: one using a Paveway IV precision-guided munition (PGM) to destroy an IS heavy weapon position that was engaging Kurdish forces, the other firing a Brimstone missile at an armed pick-up truck.