Defense minister: Britain's expanding role in Iraq to last months

“This is not simply a humanitarian mission,” Fallon said in comments run in The Times newspaper.

“We and other countries in Europe are determined to help the government of Iraq combat this new and very extreme form of terrorism that ISIL (Islamic State) is promoting.”

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Speaking to RAF pilots and other service personnel during a visit to an RAF base in Cyprus, the defence minister said: “there may well now be in the next few weeks and months other ways that we may need to help save life (and) protect people and we are going to need all of you again,” The Guardian daily reported.

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