International alliance against the Islamic State
The International Alliance against the Islamic state was formed to the terrorist acting Sunni - Islamist militia Islamic State fight (IS). The coalition includes some Western and Arab states as well as Turkey .
history
The United States called on 5 September 2014 at the NATO summit in Wales Newport (Gwent) , an international military alliance against IS in life. In addition to the United States , the founding members were Germany , the United Kingdom , France , Italy , Poland , Denmark , Australia , Canada and Turkey . Then there were the Netherlands (October 2014 to July 2016) and later Belgium (since June 2016), each with several F-16 fighter-bombers .
A few days later, US President Barack Obama appointed former general and former commander of the International Security Assistance Force John R. Allen as special envoy for the alliance against IS. Allen's successor in this office has been Brett McGurk since October 2015 .
course
September 2014
On September 22, 2014, the first US-led air strike by the International Alliance against ISIS took place in Syria. In addition to the United States Air Force and United States Navy (with cruise missiles ), fighter jets from Saudi Arabia , Bahrain , Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have also participated. The attacks targeted 50 targets in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa . An IS headquarters was destroyed in the provincial capital Raqqa and a checkpoint was hit in the province of Deir ez-Zor .
On September 24, 2014, US bombers attacked a building belonging to the Syrian Khorasan group , killing 15 people and completely destroying the building. This group is part of the Al-Nusra Front and is considered a terrorist organization in the United States. The Arab members of the alliance do not participate in the attack on this group, as the Khorasan are supported by Qatar , among others .
Operation names
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United States : Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) (German: Inner determination ), officially launched on October 15, 2014 by the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) and retroactively from August 8, 2014. -
Australia : Operation Okra (since August 31, 2014) -
Belgium : Operation Desert Falcon (ODF) (since September 2014) -
France : Opération Chammal (since September 20, 2014) -
United Kingdom : Operation Shader (since September 26, 2014) -
Italy : Operazione Prima Parthica (since October 2014) -
Jordan : Operation Martyr Muath (عملية الشهيد معاذ) (since September 22, 2014) -
Canada : Operation Impact (since September 4, 2014) -
Germany : Operation Counter Daesh (since December 4, 2015)
Capacity to act
Rainer Hermann of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung criticized that the conflicting interests made coherent intervention impossible.
partner
States
International organizations
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Garamone, Jim : Hagel Says Anti-ISIL Coalition Continues to Grow. defense.gov of September 18, 2014 (last accessed October 9, 2014).
- ↑ "Dutch military contribution in Iraq" ( Memento of the original dated February 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. defensie.nl accessed on October 22, 2016
- ↑ Obama names Brett McGurk as envoy to coalition fighting Islamic State. Reuters , October 23, 2015, accessed February 8, 2016
- ↑ War Against Islamists: The Most Important Facts on the US Air War in Syria
- ↑ US Central Command News Release: Centcom Designates Ops Against ISIL as 'Inherent Resolve'. defense.gov of October 15, 2014 (last accessed October 19, 2014).
- ↑ Why the West won't save Kobane
