It’s no surprise that Britain’s decision to extend its military efforts against Daesh (the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) with airstrikes in Syria has been met with a sigh of relief in France. It was appreciated both as a vindication of Francois Hollande’s strategy of reaching out to allies after the Paris attacks, and as a welcome break from what had been perceived in recent years as a worrying British strategic withdrawal from European security issues.
From a French perspective, that was starkly illustrated by Britain’s refusal to join airstrikes in Syria in 2013, at a time when …read more
Source: The Bangladesh Today
