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Posts Tagged: Bashar al-Assad

Alec Cadzow: Global Britain must be prepared to intervene in the Middle East

The region has been conspicuously absent from our foreign policy discourse, largely attributable to mistrust on intervention caused by the Iraq war.

By Alec Cadzow | 15 January 2021 | 54 comments

Garvan Walshe: Strife in the Caucasus. How Armenia and Azerbaijan are pawns in a new great game between Russia and Turkey.

Tensions have been building for the best part of a year, serious skirmishes broke out in June – and America is nowhere to be seen.

By Garvan Walshe | 8 October 2020 | 25 comments

Tom Tugendhat: It’s time for the Government to stand with its allies – and stand up to Iran

To do so would mean more than staying in step with Trump. For no US administration could accept being bound into a UN system without a veto.

By Tom Tugendhat MP | 26 August 2020 | 32 comments

Charlotte Leslie: A defining test looms abroad for post-Brexit Britain. Will we act if Netanyahu annexes part of the West Bank?

Or will Britain trade in its global reputation for lawfulness in exchange for keeping Trump sweet for trade?

By Charlotte Leslie | 22 June 2020 | 139 comments

WATCH: Raab and Tugendhat share their dismay at Trump’s abandonment of the Kurds

“Does he know of any policy decision by any ally which has so undermined our security partnership and empowered our enemies?” “No…”

15 October 2019 | 33 comments

Alicia Kearns: Ten actions we can and should take to help the Kurds

The UK’s role is limited, as we will not and cannot put our own people into this theatre – but we must do what we can.

By Alicia Kearns | 14 October 2019 | 39 comments

Garvan Walshe: Erdogan’s Kurdish invasion will be a disaster

Turkey appears to assume that their opponents will flee. But if they’ve nowhere to go, they’ll have no alternative but to fight.

By Garvan Walshe | 10 October 2019 | 101 comments

Bob Seely: In the Gulf, we are paying the price for starving defence of funding for so long

As well as a response to the immediate crisis, we need to start planning ahead properly and routinely.

By Bob Seely MP | 23 July 2019 | 37 comments

Bob Seely: Perhaps the first war in which hospitals are the primary target. What I saw and heard on Syria’s border.

The doctors’ discussion comes after a long day’s training with a British trauma surgeon who teaches a Hostile Environment Surgical Training course.

By Bob Seely MP | 25 July 2018 | 6 comments

Syria. MPs to argue about the stable door after the horse has bolted – or, rather, is back inside.

The Prime Minister faces a difficult afternoon – but will be aided by the unwillingess of Tory backbenchers to line up with Jeremy Corbyn.

By Paul Goodman | 16 April 2018 | 145 comments

WATCH: Cable – It’s “very important for the Prime Minister to build a consensus” on Syria, “which she hasn’t done”

The Liberal Democrat Leader warns that May could come to regret not holding a Commons vote if the operation goes “very badly pear-shaped”.

15 April 2018 | 82 comments

WATCH: Lidington – “We are neither shutting our eyes nor holding our noses” to Assad’s other war crimes

As well as punishing the use of chemical weapons, “we are seeking to hold Assad to account at the UN Security Council…despite the fact that he is protected by Russia”.

15 April 2018 | 6 comments

WATCH: Thornberry – “It cannot be Donald Trump and a couple of allies deciding unilaterally” on Syria

“We have been here before, when we have not had clear evidence about weapons of mass destruction.”

15 April 2018 | 56 comments

WATCH: Johnson – “This was the right thing to do – to deter the use of chemical weapons not just by Assad but around the world”

“People around the world are looking now and saying ‘finally, someone stood up against that’, and the world said ‘enough’ to the use of such weapons.”

15 April 2018 | 83 comments

Our survey. Tory members support military action against Assad – up to a point

Three in four support some kind of action. However, three in five appear unwilling to risk members of our armed forces losing their lives.

By Paul Goodman | 15 April 2018 | 83 comments

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