Military Intervention

(asked on 24th February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military operations the UK has undertaken against (a) Daesh and (b) al-Qaeda in the last 12 months.


Answered by
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Penny Mordaunt
This question was answered on 29th February 2016

In the last 12 months, the UK has been continuing Operation SHADER against Daesh in Iraq and Syria. There have been no UK military operations against Al Qaeda in the same period.

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