Alongside our support for diplomatic efforts to end the violence, the UK has alleviated suffering by committing £2.81 billion of humanitarian aid to the Syria Crisis since 2012, our largest ever response to a single humanitarian crisis.

Are UK allies with Syria?

In 2001, positive relations were developed between Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Syrian government, as part of the War on Terror. … Since the 2011 civil war, relations have deteriorated, and the UK was one of the first countries to recognise the opposition as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people.

Did the UK fight in Syria?

As a significant part of Syria′s territory was from 2014 until October 2017 controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an entity internationally recognised as terrorist, a number of Western and other countries, most notably the U.S., Russia, Britain, and France, have participated in direct military …