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UK military operations in Syria and Iraq inquiry

Inquiry by the Defence Committee, 1 December 2015 to 19 December 2016. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 1 December 2015: Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP, Secretary of State for Defence, Lieutenant General Gordon Messenger, Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Military Strategy and Operations), Air Marshal Stephen Hillier KCB CBE DFC, Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Capability) and Peter Watson, Director General for Security Policy
  • 19 January 2016: Dr Afzal Ashraf, Consultant Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, Major General (Rtd) Jonathan Shaw CB CBE
  • 2 February 2016: Tom Hardie-Forsyth, adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq; Peter Ford, former Ambassador to Syria.
  • 9 February 2016: Lieutenant General (retd) Sir Simon Mayall KBE CB
  • 17 March 2016: Dr Fred Kagan, Resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute, General Jack Keane (Retd), ISW Chairman of the BoardCharles Lister, Resident Fellow, Middle East Institute, Michael Eisenstadt, Kahn Fellow, Director, Military & Security Studies Program, The Washington Institute
  • 22 March 2016: Dr Lina Khatib, Senior Research Associate, Arab Reform Initiative, Dr Neil Quilliam, Acting Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House, Colonel (Retd) Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE
  • 13 April 2016: Richard Atwood, Director of Multilateral Affairs and Head of New York Office, and Claudia Gazzini, Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group.
  • 4 May 2016: Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, Tim Marshall, The What and The Why, Anthony Loyd, The Times
  • 26 May 2016: Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP, Secretary of State for Defence, Lieutenant General Mark Carleton-Smith CBE, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Military Strategy and Operations), Dominic Wilson, Director of Operational Policy, Ministry of Defence