adminKARACA/BAGHDAD. — Islamic State fighters tightened their siege on a town on Syria’s border with Turkey yesterday despite US-led air strikes aimed at defeating the militants in both Syria and Iraq.
Washington’s closest ally in the wars of the last decade joined the coalition last Friday after weeks of weighing its options: Britain’s parliament voted 542 to 43 to back Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to join air strikes on Iraq.
“This is not a threat on the far side of the world. Left unchecked, we will face a terrorist caliphate on the shores of the Mediterranean and bordering a NATO member, with a declared and proven intention to attack our country and our people,” Cameron told lawmakers.
Until this week France was the only Western country to answer President Barack Obama’s call to join the US-led campaign.
But Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands have all joined since Monday and Denmark announced yesterday that it too would send planes. — Reuters.
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