Hollande: United States, France, Russian Federation should unify against ISIS

Seven terrorist attacks have been thwarted in the last six months, David Cameron has revealed as he oversees the biggest increase in security in the United Kingdom since the 7/7 bombings, including the recruitment of almost 2,000 new spies.

In remarks in a Russian TV documentary shown Tuesday, Lavrov said that analysis of US attacks on Islamic State militants in Syria over the past year indicates that the attacks are sparing the IS units that would pose the most threat to the Syrian army and Assad.

“We will look to get back to kind of conversation they had in Sochi in 2012 when they had a really lengthy deep discussion of the politics in Syria and the situation there and how you might see a process going forward”, the source said.

But the PM has been forced to row back in the face of fierce opposition from the new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

“The disagreement has been that we think Assad should go at once, and Russian Federation obviously has taken a different view”, Mr Cameron said.

Mr Corbyn said the focus must be on a political settlement for the Middle Eastern state, and said airstrikes would “probably not” help.

“One war doesn’t necessarily bring about peace; it often can bring yet more conflict and more mayhem and more loss”, Mr Corbyn told ITV’s Lorraine programme.

But he said his critics were wrong to suggest that he did not have a plan for the transition of Syria to an inclusive post-Assad government which could gain the trust of all the country’s ethnic and religious communities.

He said leaders had agreed to cut terrorist financing, share intelligence and stop terrorist fighters from travelling, as well as improving airport security in a bid to tackle the threat of IS. Leaders of the Group of 20 top economies meeting in Turkey described the Paris gun and bombing assaults as an “unacceptable affront to all humanity”, according to a rare separate statement accompanying the final communique after their annual summit. “It was the sort of thing we were warned about but the warning that we were previously planning and responding to very much came out of al-Qaeda and that area between Pakistan and Afghanistan”, Cameron told British media from the ongoing G20 summit in Turkey.

Putin, in footage broadcast earlier on Tuesday, had vowed to hunt down those responsible for blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt and intensify air strikes against Islamists in Syria, after the Kremlin concluded a bomb had destroyed the plane last month, killing 224 people. Mr Cameron insisted he was “right” to pass on information to the Russian president in a phone call soon after the disaster, which killed 224.