Airstrikes may hit financial heart of Islamic State but US plans to decapitate group’s leadership will take planning and patience The UK joins attacks inside Syria at a time when the US-led coalition has embarked on a major strategic shift. After a year of prevarication on the piece of the Obama administration,in recent weeks the Pentagon has opted for a combination of trying to chok e Islamic State funding while at the same time inserting a large US special forces team into the Syrian desert east of the Euphrates, to mount operations against Isis – primarily attempting to assassinate its leadership.
But both the US and Britain acknowledge the campaign is still only in its infancy and that they are looking to defeat Isis not in a matter of weeks or months but years. Fallon told the BBC: “This is not going to be quick.” As piece of the unusual focus on an economic squeeze on Isis, or four RAF Tornados hit six targets in the Omar oilfield. Over the last few weeks the US and France beget also been hitting oilfields and tankers carrying loads (said by the US to be sold to customers in territory held by President Bashar al-Assad and over the border in Turkey).
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Source: theguardian.com