Terror Warning for UK Tourists: Foreign Office Updates Travel Advice for all Global Destinations to say Britons Face 'Heightened Threat' of Attack from ISIS Supporters
Britons travelling abroad are being warned that they could be targeted by terrorists seeking revenge for UK air strikes against Islamic State extremists.
The Foreign Office has updated its travel advice for all destinations across the globe that British nationals faced a 'heightened threat' of attack from 'groups or individuals motivated by the conflict in Iraq and Syria'.
It urges all Britons living or travelling overseas to be 'vigilant' at the current time.
Daily Mail UK, 6 November 2014
Threat: Britons travelling abroad are being warned that they could be targeted by terrorists seeking revenge for UK air strikes against Islamic State extremists (pictured)
The FCO said that it was responding to the 'generalised threat' rather than warnings of a specific attack.
The move comes after Home Secretary Theresa May announced in August that the UK national terror threat level had been raised from 'substantial' to 'severe', meaning an attack is considered 'highly likely'.
Last month, Parliament gave the go-ahead for the RAF to carry out air strikes against IS forces in Iraq and the Government has been supplying arms to the Kurdish peshmerga militias fighting the extremists.
The updated FCO advice states:
'There is considered to be a heightened threat of terrorist attack globally against UK interests and British nationals from groups or individuals motivated by the conflict in Iraq and Syria. You should be vigilant at this time.'
The FCO said that it was responding to the 'generalised threat' rather than warnings of a specific attack by ISIS
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