Counter-Daesh Quarterly Update Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Counter-Daesh Quarterly Update

Peter Kyle Excerpts
Tuesday 24th May 2016

(7 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Fallon Portrait Michael Fallon
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Again, I will try to get that specific information to the hon. Lady; I do not have it to hand. I want to make it clear that the estimate is of 200 foreign fighters joining Daesh a month, vis-à-vis the figure of 2,000 joining a month when Daesh was at its peak a couple of years ago. They have more than 200 foreign fighters, but the flow of new foreign fighters has been quite considerably reduced.

Peter Kyle Portrait Peter Kyle (Hove) (Lab)
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At the time of the Syria debate back in October, there were guarded suggestions that Russia, through the Vienna process, would work towards a stable transition in Syria within a six-month period. Clearly, that has not happened. Will the Secretary of State say whether there is any hope of Russia playing a constructive role?