Syrian-based terrorists are planning attacks in the UK similar to the one that killed 12 people at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a security chief has warned.
Andrew Parker — director-general of MI5, the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence service — said there had been more than 20 Syrian-linked terror plots against western targets in the past 14 months.
In one of the starkest assessments from any western counterterror chief since the Syrian civil war broke out, Mr Parker said on Thursday evening that organisations including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as Isis, were actively plotting attacks in the UK.
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