The Independent: Any military success in Syria will unravel because of new territory Britain is helping to create for Isis who have taken advantage of the instability and wide-spread civilian destruction caused by months of a Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen, according to senior Foreign Office lawyers and former diplomats.
In echoes of the warnings issued to Tony Blair’s government ahead of the war in Iraq, advisers to the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, are increasingly questioning the legality and the consequences of a no-questions-asked policy of selling specialist missiles to Saudi Arabia.
Since March this year a Saudi-led coalition of Sunni Gulf states has bombed Yemen and imposed a blockade of its ports. The Saudis want to dislodge Houthi rebels and return Yemen’s exiled president, Abd-Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, to power.
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