Two Britons fighting for 'Islamic State' killed in UK drone attack

Two British citizens who were fighting for so-called Islamic State (IS) were killed in an RAF drone strike in Syria which was carried out without parliamentary approval, prime minister David Cameron has said.

A third militant was also killed in the August 21 strike on a car in ’IS’ stronghold Raqqa, 160km east of Aleppo, in what Cameron described as an “act of self-defence” against the primary British target who was planning “specific and barbaric” terrorist attacks in his homeland.

No civilians were killed and the strike was not carried out as part of coalition bombing operations against IS.