Germany, UK will not join anti-IS airstrikes

German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told a news conference in Berlin that Germany has not been asked to take part in the air strikes and would not be participating.
His British counterpart, Philip Hammond, said Britain āsupports entirely the US approach of developing an international coalitionā against the Islamic State, whom he described as ābarbaricā, and said that, in terms of how to help such a coalition, āwe have ruled nothing outā.