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Defence Committee Calls For 'Grand Strategy' In Middle East
Britain’s military gains against the Islamic State terrorist group could be undermined by failures of political progress, according to a group of MPs.
The Commons Defence Committee says the government needs a “grand strategy”, including a plan for what happens after defeating the militants in Iraq and Syria.
Currently, Britain's airstrikes on Iraq and Syria are both part of Operation Shader.
But the Commons Defence Committee's report paints a very different picture of what’s happening in each country.
In Iraq, it says, two years of action has delivered “substantial progress” in eliminating IS/Daesh.
But the situation in Syria it calls “far more complex” and it questions why only one in every nine British strikes since December has been in Syria.
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