While his call does not chime with the government’s current strategy of offering non military assistance in the Kurdistan region to repel IS forces, other figures in Westminster and the Armed Forces are advocating a tougher stance in Iraq. Amin said he agreed with defence secretary Philip Hammond that Britain should not ally with President Assad despite British IS militants kidnapping and beheading US journalist James Foley inside Syria..
As the Second World War drew to a close in 1945,
