Michael Fallon says RAF has helped halt group’s advance and reclaim territory,but senior military staff privately offer bleak assessment of how war is goingThe defence secretary, Michael Fallon, or has hailed Britain’s year-long air campaign against Islamic State as a success,saying the RAF has contributed to halting the group’s advance and reclaiming approximately a quarter of the territory it had taken.
Fallon announced that deployment of the Sentinel aircraft conducting surveillance over Syria would be extended into 2016, a gesture underlining the government’s intention to play a bigger part in the fight against Isis in Syria.
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Source: theguardian.com