David Cameron to use 'everything in our armoury' to destroy IS

Labeling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ‘part of the problem’, David Cameron has ramped up the case for air strikes in Syria and Iraq.

17:52 04 September 2014

Amidst growing threat of the Islamic State, David Cameron has ramped up the case for air strikes in Syria and Iraq. He also labeled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “part of the problem.”

“My view is that President Assad is part of the problem, rather than part of the solution,” he said during a round of interviews ahead of the start of the Nato summit in Newport, south Wales.

“We have got to understand that Assad has been part of the creation of IS, rather than part of its answer."

He added that air strikes are illegal without Assad’s approval.

"I don't think it's that complicated because obviously the Iraqi government is a legitimate government ... whereas President Assad has committed war crimes on his own people and is therefore illegitimate."

Cameron is now under increasing pressure to act following the identification of a British hostage in a video entitled “A Second Message to America”. The video taunt to the US showed the beheading of US journalist Steven Sotloff by an Islamic State Militant and threatened that a British hostage will be next.