Syria conflict: Ministers to 'argue for UK military action'

[steve2470]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34155501

Ministers will start to make a case for British military action in Syria next week - with Downing Street keen to take the "next step" against so-called Islamic State - the BBC understands.

Sources said ministers planned to lay the groundwork for a new Commons vote.

The government plans to set out its achievements in Iraq so far with RAF air strikes and training of Kurdish and Iraqi security forces, sources said.

The BBC also understands a small force could be sent to Libya.

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More on Syria further down in the article.

[icymist]

1. That's great! Condemn the Libyans to live like this:

The Islamic State Diary: A Chronicle of Life in Libyan Purgatory

Only 300 kilometers (186 miles) separate dream from nightmare. On the coast of Crete, tourists enjoy their carefree summer holidays. But just across the water, at the southern edge of the Mediterranean in Libya, Islamists are committing murder in the name of Allah.

Very little unfiltered news is making its way out of the contested regions. Most of the images we get are from terrorists, who are spreading their chilling propaganda on YouTube and Facebook. But what is really happening inside the isolated country? What is life like there?
Since the toppling of Moammar Gadhafi, the coastal city of Derna has been ruled alternately by an offshoot of al-Qaida and by the Islamic State terrorist militia. One young resident kept a diary for us for over five months. Its publication presents a not-insignificant risk to the 26-year-old. In order to protect his identity, we have changed his name and are instead calling him Farrah Schennib.

The two Islamist groups are engaged in a brutal battle for power. In July, al-Qaida fighters drove the IS extremists out of Derna, but now they are trying to return.

In this special report, you will find 22 entries from Farrah Schennib's diary. They are filled with a sense of fear and resignation. But they also show a lust for life and a desire to resist.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-islamic-state-diary-a-chronical-of-life-in-libyan-purgatory-a-1051422.html

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. I am so torn about this. If you get rid of ISIL, you still have Assad sitting there, which is what

started all this. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. People are angry and horrified by the image of that lifeless child on the beach. I couldn't stop crying. Europe certainly needs to do more about the migrant crisis, but someone has to get to the cause of the displacement, and frankly, that means taking on ISIL in one form or another.