The Defence Secretary Michael Fallon visits Turkey today where he is meeting the Turkish Prime Minister, the Chief of the General Staff and the Foreign and Defence Ministers. Speaking from Ankara, he said:
We continue our work to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL. One of the principal reasons I am in Turkey is to plan how our two countries can work even closer together to better target terrorist leaders, as well as their sources of finance and lines of communication.
There are very encouraging reports coming out of Sinjar and we are monitoring the situation there very closely. The coalition continues to conduct intensive air operations in support of ground forces in the area who we have been training for more than a year. Overnight the Royal Air Force carried out two successful strikes on ISIL terrorists in the city of Sinjar as well a third strike in Ramadi.