President Obama and David Cameron are seeking to ready the public for wider military action against Islamist fighters in Iraq as they make the case for confronting “brutal and poisonous extremism”.
With the world waiting to see how the US president leads the response to the menace from Islamic State and Russian aggression in Ukraine, the leaders have dismissed calls to step back from conflict, saying that action is needed to prevent terrorism striking at home.
In a joint article in The Times today, Mr Obama and Mr Cameron insist at the start of the two-day Nato conference in Wales