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FOREIGN Secretary Philip Hammond stirred fears of mission creep in Syria and Iraq yesterday, suggesting that ground forces could be sent out into non-combat roles.
The Tory minister (pictured) told MPs that British troops could be deployed to support local ground forces fighting Islamic State (Isis) terrorists.
“We have ruled out the use of UK combat forces in Syria and indeed in Iraq,” he said.
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA
While politicians condemned fascist bombing of Spanish civilians in 1937, they ignored identical RAF tactics across the colonies. Today’s aerial warfare continues this pattern of applying different moral standards based on geography and race, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
