NATO intervention in Syria (ISIL Victory)

The NATO intervention to stabilise the growing insurgency in Syria started largely because of Operation Dafe. After more than a month and a half of debating and without a UN mandate NATO launched an operation to enforce a no- fly zone and after the loss of an aircraft they then proceeded to neutralise Assad and his forces. After attacking much of the Government's heavy equipment the situation became a stalemate with neither side any nearer victory. In an attempt to break the deadlock during a meeting between the President, Vice President and the Cabinet of the Syrian government, A US air strike destroyed the bunker they were in killing much of the government.

Background
Operation Dafe had devastated the Free Syrian army and while they were making ground in the north due to a lack of opposing Government forces in the centre of the country they had been removed and were under heavy pressure in the south as one by one town was encircled and commonly Sarin gas was used to push them out of the towns. One by one they were removing opposition forces and then normally executing those who surrender.

This was giving them a lot of results as a number of towns had been retaken and there were predictions by the end of the year the civil war could be over.

While in the west they watched the media with disgust as they saw shootings of surrendered and children blinded by gas. While in the UN, the Russians blocked any attempt to do anything more than condemn and two resolutions to use military force were blocked.

The US Senate passed a resolution on the 4th June to allow air strikes for 30 days with the potential for renewal. While in the UK on the 6th June the British Parliament voted to allow air strikes in conjunction with NATO over Syria. US Congress voted on the 8th June to support the Senates resolution. NATO council met on the 16th June where it agreed to send in air strikes.

The process moved forwards but there was a lot of reluctance to do any action without UN approval which wasn't happening.