Defence in the Media: 21 January 2016

...future of Sheffield Forgemasters and the continuing conflict in Yemen. DAESH The Daily Telegraph. reports that Western allies are planning major assaults to 'collapse' Daesh’s two main centres, Raqqa and...
...future of Sheffield Forgemasters and the continuing conflict in Yemen. DAESH The Daily Telegraph. reports that Western allies are planning major assaults to 'collapse' Daesh’s two main centres, Raqqa and...
...that British ground forces may be sent to fight terrorists in Libya. The articles follow comments made by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond as Western leaders draw up plans to tackle...
...on the BBC News channel, included a report from the first Western correspondent to get into the city of Ramadi, who said that although Iraqi forces are controlling much, if...
...western Mosul to trap Daesh militants inside the shrinking area of the city. The Guardian, Daily Star, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent report on the deaths of...
...38 tourists at a beachfront resort, Tunisia is grappling with the rising threat of Islamist militancy in its cities, as well as along its western border with Algeria. ISIL The...
...be going to Al Asad airbase in Anbar province, western Iraq, 100 miles west of Baghdad. They include trainers, soldiers to protect the base and personnel to set up a...
...full-scale military assault on the Syrian city of Aleppo as early as this week, according to western intelligence. The paper adds that Moscow's only aircraft carrier, which is travelling to...
...and reconnaissance ops with the peacekeeping force with personnel based in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina. The Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: There are significant security and stability challenges in Western Balkans....
...of RAF Typhoons carried out the UK's 1000th strike in the fight against Daesh. The strike, which took place on Wednesday 28 August, targeted terrorist rocket launchers in western Iraq....
...in western Afghanistan. According to the articles tourists were escorted by Afghan army personnel on their way to Herat city when they were ambushed. Some of the travellers reportedly had...