NATO began surveillance flights in Syria – The Country in line

The Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) took place on 20 October, the first flight of aircraft surveillance Awacs in support to the international coalition fight against the jihadist group Islamic State (EI), announced Tuesday the secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg.

"NATO is now offering direct support with our aircraft surveillance Awacs," said Stoltenberg at a press conference, on the eve of a meeting of Defense ministers of the Atlantic Alliance in Brussels. These aircraft, equipped with powerful surveillance radars of several hundreds of kilometers of radio, sobrevolarán area", international and the heaven is for Turkish that can monitor the airspace of Iraq and Syria", had explained to Stoltenberg in early July in Warsaw, when the members of the Alliance approved its deployment.
The first flight took off from the base Turkish Konya, according to a responsible european. "There will be several flights (…), we’ll probably be your number", added Stoltenberg, who stressed the importance for the coalition of having "best aerial images", in view of the "difficulty of the situation" in Syria and Iraq.
These aircraft, which are among the little military material property of the Atlantic Alliance, may also become a command post to coordinate bombing and other aerial operations.
The aircraft AWACS are part of the NATO support for the fight against jihadists in Syria and Iraq, Stoltenberg wants to "accelerate". "Greater stability of our neighbors increases our security," he said.
as of January of 2017, eight trainers of the Alliance will travel to Iraq to train the iraqi troops, said a european source in the bosom of NATO.
The heads of State and Government of the NATO gave the green light in the Warsaw summit in July to provide direct support to AWACS to the international coalition from allied territory and international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean.