LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday announced plans to strip suspected Islamist militants of their passports temporarily, to combat the threat posed by radicalised Britons returning from Syria and Iraq.
The proposals come days after Cameron raised Britain's terrorism alert to its second-highest level, saying Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq posed the country's greatest-ever security risk.
An IS video released last month, purporting to show a man with a London accent man beheading a US journalist, led to concern that Britons fighting in the region could return and launch attacks on British soil.
"We have all been shocked and sickened by the barbarism we have witnessed in Iraq this summer," Cameron told parliament.
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