Baladi - Journals
The Defence Secretary says the fight against ISIL is 'by no means over' as the Royal Air Force reveals it has had its busiest month over Syria and Iraq since February, the Telegraph wrote on Monday.
British air strikes from RAF Tornado jets and Reaper drones destroyed a significant number of ISIL“command posts, tunnel networks and weapons caches” in September, hitting targets at a rate of more than one per day, the Ministry of Defence said last night according to the journal.
Gavin Williamson, using an Arabic name for ISIL, said: “The fight against Daesh is by no means over and we must continue to stand up for our people and our partners, to ensure their abhorrent and poisonous ideology does not spread to our streets,” reported the Telegraph .
He added that strikes against militants would continue “as long as they pose a clear and immediate threat to our national and international security.”
Isil has lost large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria since the start of the year, and from around 50,000 fighters in 2014, the insurgents are thought to number around 2,000.
But the group is still launching brutal attacks on civilians including beheadings, burning people alive and dragging victims behind motorbikes.