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Defeating Islamic State militants crucial 'for security of Britain'

Islamic State militants seeking to "subvert and destroy the values of democracy" must be defeated, the Foreign Secretary has warned - saying action was crucial "for the security of Britain."

Foreign ministers from around the world were due to fly in to London today for a top-level summit discussing how to take the terror group down.

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Kerry: Tackling IS threat is 'the challenge of our lifetime'

Tackling the threat posed by Islamic State militants is "the challenge of our time", US Secretary of State John Kerry has said.

Arriving in London for a summit of foreign ministries from around the world, Mr Kerry said there had been "sleeper cells" of extremists in place for a long time, planning attacks which were only now coming to fruition.

He said the aim of the militants was to attack Western values.

The truth is that these groups are planning, and have been planning for a long time - going back to Osama Bin Laden and 9/11 in New York - to attack Western interest and go after anybody that they disagree with.

A very neolistic, unbelievably oppressive sense of how people ought to live. We've seen them carried out in the most grievously horrendous fashion, with public beheadings.

I think this is a challenge for all of us - it's the challenge of our time.

– John Kerry, US Secretary of State
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