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PARLIAMENT’S foreign affairs committee said yesterday that Britain should not carry out air strikes in Syria, arguing the case for further military intervention in the war-torn country was “not made.”
Ministers should continue to seek a UN-led resolution to the conflict, it recommended, arguing that Britain would “risk further reputational damage if the basis for air strikes in Syria is not clear.”
Parliament voted against a war to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in 2013 but more recently David Cameron has insisted that the Islamic State (Isis) terror group, which dominates the rebellion against Mr Assad, is his new target.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said “defeating Isis and ending the Syrian conflict are two faces of the same problem.”
His Labour counterpart Hilary Benn called for a broad effort to end the war in Syria, hinting at action against the government as well as Isis.
“It would appear that the UK has learned nothing of the lessons of Iraq and Libya in recent years,” SNP MP Stephen Gethins charged, welcoming the report’s recommendation against military action.
