RAF Tornados involved in the anti-Isis mission Operation Shader in Syria are to be equipped with ASRAAM missiles. Reuters
The Guardian: British airstrikes against Isis forces in Syria 'high risk and pointless'
Tory chair of defence select committee and former ambassador warn David Cameron against extending bombing mission
David Cameron would be guilty of embarking on a “high-risk and pointless endeavour” if he sought to extend the British bombing mission against Islamic State forces in Iraq to Syria, a senior Tory MP and a former UK ambassador to Syria have warned.
As Downing Street lays the ground for a possible commons vote to endorse an extension of the military campaign, Julian Lewis and Peter Ford say that joining forces with the US and other allied nations in the skies over Syria would be “extremely dangerous”.
WNU Editor: With no boots on the ground and/or allies to work with .... a rare acknowledgement that such an air campaign will not work.