On Thursday a monitoring group said three foreigners had been killed in Syria including an American woman and a British man.

BBC: US woman Nicole Mansfield killed fighting in Syria

British authorities said on Saturday that a man arrested in Britain under the country's anti-terrorism law has been returned to France from Britain.

CNN: Man arrested at UK airport

The brother of a British man murdered in Sri Lanka on Christmas Day 2011 has said it is "disheartening" that the suspects have not been brought to trial.

BBC: Sri Lanka murder victim Khuram Shaikh's brother speaks out