MP: IS must be defeated by ground troops
Crispin Blunt, chairman of Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said there would "have to have ground troops" in Syria and Iraq in order to defeat so-called Islamic State.
The Conservative MP told the Daily Politics it would be better if those troops came from the surrounding Sunni states such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan.
"We shouldn't play their ideological game," Mr Blunt said, claiming that IS would feel emboldened if Western troops intervened.
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