“The risks of inaction are greater than risks of taking action”, he told the Commons.
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The Prime Minister has said there would be no vote in the House of Commons unless he was assured there was a clear majority in favour.
Jeremy Corbyn sent a letter to Labour MPs setting out why he can not support military action in Syria.
The UN security council resolution authorises military action if countries face armed attack.
Britain has been launching anti-ISIL airstrikes as part of a US-led coalition since 2014 in Iraq.
The Scottish National Party’s Angus Robertson said his legislators would not support airstrikes without effective ground support and “a fully costed reconstruction and stability plan”.
In an early sign that the mood of Parliament is shifting, foreign affairs committee chairman Crispin Blunt told the chamber he now believes Britain’s interests would be best served by joining air strikes.
“What we need to be careful about here is to overemphasize the control that Islamic State has on attacks which occur in Europe, or even in the Sinai”, said Michael Stephens, a research fellow with the Qatar-based Royal United Services Institute. It said that calls to seek an alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime – a solution favored by Russian Federation – “misunderstands the causes of the problem and would make matters worse”.
However, he said the United Kingdom faced a “fundamental threat” to its security and could not wait for a transitional government to be put in place.
Secondly, we’ve just seen a wave of terrorist atrocities.
Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s left-leaning opposition Labour Party, nevertheless cautioned that the airstrikes could have “unintended consequences” that might lead to a larger military campaign, including ground troops, and questioned whether Britain’s contribution to the bombing campaign by the US and France would make any difference.
He stressed there would be no deployment of British combat forces on the ground, but that air power would support local troops fighting Daesh.
Related: “They are not Islamic”. “If we believe that action can help protect us, then with our allies, we should be part of that action, not standing aside from it”.
Attempting to allay legislators’ concerns, Cameron answered questions for more than two hours in the House of Commons.
“It would play to the IS narrative of Muslims versus Christians when like any terrorist organisation, they’ve actually killed more of their own people than anyone else”. They butchered our friends and allies and our citizens in Paris. “We want to learn from that conflict”, he said.
“It is in Syria, in Raqqa, that Isil has its headquarters, and it is from Raqqa that some of the main threats against this country are planned and orchestrated”, he will say.
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“Isil themselves, they butcher Muslims in vast numbers – that’s why they have to be stopped and in the end we can’t subcontract that work out to everybody else”.
