Britain joined U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, but demonstrating the limits to international solidarity, Vladimir Putin issued bitter new denunciations of Turkey for shooting down a Russian plane last month. British Tornado jets struck oil fields in Syria used to fund Islamic State before dawn. That contribution forms only a tiny part of the U.S.-led Operation Inherent Resolve, which has been bombing Islamic State in Iraq and Syria for more than a year with hundreds of aircraft. The operation has so far failed to dislodge the militants from a swath of...
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