UK 'next target' for ISIS as fears mount of Paris-style attack in 'coming weeks'

According to Mirror UK, ISIS extremists are reportedly planning to attack the UK after naming it as its next target following the vote to bomb Syria.

The Paris-style terror attacks would be launched by British-born jihadists travelling back from Syria, a Middle East security expert warned.

Paul Cruickshank, the terrorism analyst for American news channel CNN, said he had been told about the threat by a senior European counter-terrorism official.

Mr Cruickshank said the source told him: "There's intelligence that has been obtained by European security agencies that ISIS in Syria and Iraq is aiming to hit the United Kingdom next.

"The intelligence suggesting that British ISIS operatives in Syria and Iraq have been tasked to return to the United Kingdom to launch an attack against the UK.

"These concerns have been compounded by that vote yesterday in the British House of Commons authorising British airstrikes for the first time against ISIS in Syria."

He added: "They are treating this very, very seriously indeed. "Not clear how imminent this threat is."

Mr Cruickshank, who has reported extensively on al Qaeda, ISIS, and other Jihadi groups, said there was: "Real concern now about the threat to the United Kingdom" before adding "Concern in Europe, particularly in the UK now that what we saw in Paris, an attack like that, could play out again, perhaps in the United Kingdom, in the weeks ahead."

Mirror UK