Why have Christian leaders backed action against ISIS?
The Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster endorsed the Government ahead of last night’s vote. Is the persecution of their faith the reason?
The Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster endorsed the Government ahead of last night’s vote. Is the persecution of their faith the reason?
The decision represented a decisive endorsement of a particular plan – not a return to Tony Blair-style liberal internationalism.
We must not send the message that if you kill 240,000 in Syria, you get away with it, but if you kill 140 in France then you’re in trouble.
The number was expected to be higher, but in the end the rebellion was smaller than anticipated.
The names include Tom Watson, Chuka Umunna, Dan Jarvis and Alan Johnson.
“In the period in which the campaign has been operating, recruitment to Daesh has doubled.”
The Labour former minister argues in favour of extending air strikes to Syria.
The inheritance of Bevin and Attlee is not just on the back foot, it is beset by people who want to destroy it completely.
Hansard’s account of the opening of today’s debate on extending military action against ISIS.
Cameron offered a convincingly modest justification for bombing ISIS in Syria: to do so is not perfect, but is better than sitting things out.
The Prime Minister makes his case in the House of Commons.
A visit to Kurdistan reveals the realities and the myths about the current conflict.
The SAS veteran meets the men and women fighting on the front line.
We will not be “bombing Syria”, but attacking carefully identified terrorist targets in the worst example of an “ungoverned space” that the modern world has seen.
Which represents no change in their view since the summer. But support for bombing among our readers as a whole is much lower.