ISIL: Iraq and Syria

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. If he received a copy of my statement only a few minut...

I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on the tone and approach of his statement, but may I press h...

The UK’s position at the moment is that we will not supply lethal equipment to the Syrian armed o...

As a former Minister with responsibility for the middle east, may I express my disappointment at ...

The right hon. Gentleman says that he speaks as a former Minister with responsibility for the mid...

I personally find it increasingly difficult to justify the distinction in our policy between Iraq...

I hear what my right hon. and learned Friend says about the distinction between Iraq and Syria. H...

The Foreign Secretary referred to the 170,000 people who have left Kobane, but the city has not f...

Yes. We would look to work with all opposition groups in Syria who are committed to a democratic ...

I completely agree with my right hon. Friend that ISIS cannot be defeated by air power alone, and...

To answer my right hon. Friend’s last point first, yes, I think there is a widespread realism in ...

I, too, was surprised at the lack of reference in the Foreign Secretary’s statement to the role o...

We regret the outbreak of violence in domestic protests in Turkey—something we had hoped we had p...

May I urge caution on those who advocate increased military intervention, whether in Iraq or Syri...

I made specific reference to that in my opening remarks. It is true that Prime Minister al-Abadi ...

I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s support for the peshmerga and the ongoing support of the UK Gov...

I am not sure whether the hon. Lady is talking about Syria or Iraq. In Syria, under the authority...

Will my right hon. Friend join me in thanking the brave aid workers at ShelterBox? It is providin...

I am happy to endorse the efforts of ShelterBox, an organisation my hon. Friend obviously knows s...

On the point abut winterisation, will the Secretary of State comment on media reports that Britis...

As far as I am aware, unless policy has changed in the three months since I left the Ministry of ...

What about tents?

I do not think we have any shortage of tents. I will talk to colleagues in the Department for Int...

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Order. I ask hon. Members to focus on crisp, single questions to the Foreign Secretary, whom I am...

First, may I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend’s serious endeavours to get to grips with some v...

Or others.

Or others, as my hon. Friend says. It was a matter of extraordinary surprise, after the investmen...

We need to do two things to make this work. First, we need to retrain the basic manpower of the I...

Returning to the humanitarian issues that the Foreign Secretary raised, I acknowledge the work of...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his expression of support for DFID and the internat...

I wonder whether I could press the Foreign Secretary further on the role of Turkey. It is a conce...

As I mentioned earlier, the national security adviser is in Turkey today and will be talking to t...

Is the Foreign Secretary not concerned about the apparently very close relationship that exists b...

The hon. Gentleman’s intervention just goes to underline how complex the situation is. We are not...

My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has used strong language in his statement. He says tha...

Order. The hon. Gentleman has been in the House a long time. He knows that this is not an opportu...

My hon. Friend makes his point with great passion. He will know that there are a number of offenc...

There are indeed many historic and political reasons for Turkey not to take a more active part in...

The hon. Lady will know that the Turkish Parliament has recently passed a law that allows Turkish...

The women and men of our intelligence and security services are doing the most incredible job at ...

I am probably long enough in the tooth to know that questions asking for categorical assurances o...

Further to the contribution from the hon. Member for Kettering (Mr Hollobone), 30 British jihadis...

It is probably worth noting that, as well as the reported 30 dead, there have been media reports ...

We have heard about the gallantry of the Kurdish ground troops, often led by women, who are defen...

Looking at a map, that would exactly be the logic. My understanding is that the Turks are allowin...

ISIL swept across northern Iraq and the middle of Iraq in its brutal and bloody campaign of genoc...

The hon. Gentleman is right: there have, sadly, been industrial-scale organised kidnappings—perha...

What is the rationale for proving only non-lethal support to the Syrian moderate opposition?

The Government’s decision to date has been that we do not wish to move to the provision of lethal...

The Foreign Secretary has talked a number of times about stopping the flow of fighters going to j...

There is. It is an absolutely central strand of the work that the Home Office and the Department ...

In answer to an earlier question from the Liberal Democrat spokesman, the Foreign Secretary seeme...

No. To make the position clear, we have always said that we have not ruled out the possibility of...

Returning to the humanitarian crisis in and around Kobane, the Foreign Secretary is right that an...

I understand that an estimated 20,000 civilians remain in Kobane. The Turks have an excellent rec...

From the words and tone of the Foreign Secretary’s remarks, it seems that those who have fled the...

The hon. Gentleman asks the right question. People who will have moved to a place of safety, if n...