Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra has freed 16 Lebanese troops held captive for more than a year in a prisoner swap with Lebanon.
Jeremy Corbyn could face a number of resignations from his shadow cabinet over his opposition to the UK joining the US-led coalition campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria.
David Cameron say the UK will be made safer by launching air strikes on Islamic State targets within Syria alongside the US-led coalition.
The man believed to have been the mastermind behind the Paris terror attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was among those killed in a raid by French police on an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis on Wednesday.
Two people have died and seven people were arrested in a police raid on a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.