THE UNITED KINGDOM'S CONDUCT OF WAR IN IRAQ AND SYRIA : THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OPERATION SHADER AGAINTS DAESH (2014-2016)

Abstract

The conflict in Syria and Iraq has taken a new level with the involvement of a new actor,DAESH. The arrival of DAESH in the civil war of Iraq and Syria brought Tyranny into the chaos. The United Kingdom along with its global coalition, took to the war against DAESH in September 2014, under the military strategy codenamed: Operation Shader. The military campaign in Iraq and Syria is just one aspect of that broader strategy which also includes measures to restrict the flow of foreign fighters, stop foreign financing, provide humanitarian assistance to Iraq and Syria and strategic communications (propaganda, public diplomacy and psychological operations) intended to counter ISIS’ ideology. The terror group is still ravaging around in the aforementioned states. This thesis aims to explain UK’s military strategy operation against DAESH in Iraq and Syria as well as finding the comparison of the implementation of the strategy between those states.