Killing British jihadists ‘is only option’, says Rory Stewart

Raffaello Pantucci, director of international security studies at the Royal United Services Institute, told The Times: “From a government perspective, them dying out there is the easiest solution.” He accepted that although some schoolgirls might have been unaware of the dangers in Syria, anybody in their late teens upwards would have to be “exceptionally naive” not to realise they were making a “very bad life choice”.