And if a government attempts to oppose the “no-fly zone,” that becomes part of the justification for toppling the regime all together as we saw during the debate over the invasion of Iraq.

The US has established no-fly zones in the past “but unlike previous instances in Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Libya, which involved containing small and out-dated air forces, Russia has ...

The most the Kurds got was a no-fly zone, in 1991, over the northern third of Iraq, where the vast majority of Kurds live, following the first Gulf War, and enforced by the US, Great Britain and F ...

Iraq went from “self-reliant” to being ... and over a decade of porous no-fly zones had left Americans fearing that Saddam was uncontainable. The invasion was brilliantly conducted, and ...

said Nato cannot impose a no-fly zone as this could lead to a "third world war". General Sir Adrian Bradshaw told the BBC's Today programme the conflict was not like the 2003 invasion of Iraq.