As MPs prepare to vote on extending UK military action against Islamic State from Iraq to Syria, Open Briefing has launched a new series of monthly intelligence briefings on UK actions in the two countries.

Funded by the Network for Social Change, these briefings will use the latest open source intelligence in order to identify British military actions against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and analyse the military and political developments behind them. The briefings are published in order to inform debate on the issue and to ensure any military action is accountable. They are prepared each month by an analytical team led by a former British Army intelligence officer with 30 years experience in intelligence.

You can read the first briefing here.