Berlin: Germany plans to send Tornado reconnaissance jets to support the fight against the ISIS in Syria, the defence spokesman of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives said today.
A day after Merkel pledged in Paris to "soon" decide how to help battle the ISIS in Syria, she met cabinet ministers in charge of security ahead of afternoon meetings of the major parties' parliamentary groups.
"Germany will play a more active role than before," said the defence policy spokesman of her conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Henning Otte, in a statement.
"We are not only strengthening the training mission in northern Iraq, but will step up our commitment in the fight against ISIS terror, among other things with RECCE reconnaissance Tornados," he said.
Post-war Germany has been traditionally reluctant to send troops abroad, although it has joined UN-mandated missions in the Balkans and elsewhere, and the NATO coalition in Afghanistan.
Otte said that "the ISIS can only be defeated militarily, therefore no idea must be ruled out as we engage in the fight against Islamist terrorism".
He added that all requests by the alliance against ISIS and by France "must be examined with an open mind".
On Wednesday, Germany announced it would deploy 650 more troops to Mali to relieve the France mission there.
A day after Merkel pledged in Paris to "soon" decide how to help battle the ISIS in Syria, she met cabinet ministers in charge of security ahead of afternoon meetings of the major parties' parliamentary groups.
"Germany will play a more active role than before," said the defence policy spokesman of her conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Henning Otte, in a statement.
"We are not only strengthening the training mission in northern Iraq, but will step up our commitment in the fight against ISIS terror, among other things with RECCE reconnaissance Tornados," he said.
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Post-war Germany has been traditionally reluctant to send troops abroad, although it has joined UN-mandated missions in the Balkans and elsewhere, and the NATO coalition in Afghanistan.
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Otte said that "the ISIS can only be defeated militarily, therefore no idea must be ruled out as we engage in the fight against Islamist terrorism".
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He added that all requests by the alliance against ISIS and by France "must be examined with an open mind".
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On Wednesday, Germany announced it would deploy 650 more troops to Mali to relieve the France mission there.
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