Are there 70,000 anti-IS fighters in Syria?
When Prime Minister David Cameron made the case for air strikes in Syria, he claimed that there were 70,000 opposition fighters who could take on so-called Islamic State in the country.
But it has been reported that senior military figures had serious doubts about the claim.
Elizabeth Quintana, Director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, discussed with Francis Elliott, political editor of The Times, Ben Chacko, editor of the Morning Star and Jo Coburn.
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