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David Cameron said he would "not rule out taking further action" against IS
David Cameron has said he will not rule anything out in relation to military action against Islamic State, which is holding a Briton hostage.
But speaking ahead of a Nato summit in Wales, the prime minister told the BBC any action, including air strikes, must not be "Western intervention over the heads of neighbouring states".
He and Barack Obama warned against an "isolationist approach" in the Times.
Mr Cameron said the UK would not pay a ransom to free the 44-year-old hostage.
The prime minister said he was "personally supervising" government efforts to secure his release.
Two US hostages have been killed by Islamic State (IS), which has threatened that the Briton would be next.
The man, who has been held for more than a year, has family in Scotland but relatives have asked the media not to name him.
'Pursue national interests'The US is using air strikes against IS but Britain has not yet done so and any action in the region must be "properly thought through and patiently delivered", said Mr Cameron.
Extremist group IS has seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in recent months, declaring a new caliphate, or Islamic state.
When asked about the possibility of the UK taking military action against IS, Mr Cameron said: "I certainly don't rule anything out. We should pursue our national interests.
"The most important thing to consider is that we mustn't see this as something where you have a Western intervention over the heads of neighbouring states and leaving others to pick up the pieces."
He added that there was "no simple, straight-forward military-led answer" but a "tough, long-term, intelligent approach" rather than a single intervention was required.
The BBC's Bridget Kendall, at the Nato summit in Wales, said it was not the right forum to discuss a coalition to tackle IS, because leaders of some of the countries who would be part of such an agreement were not there.
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David Cameron tells Sarah Montague about how the UK plans to face the challenge of IS
IS has threatened to kill the British hostage unless US air strikes on its positions in Iraq are halted.
The threat came during a video posted online on Tuesday showing the killing of US journalist Steven Sotloff. IS killed another US journalist, James Foley, last month and had asked for a $132m (£80m) ransom for his release.
The unnamed Briton was taken hostage in the village of Atmeh, in the Idlib province of north-west Syria, in March last year, along with an Italian aid worker and two Syrians, who have since been freed.
Security threatenedMr Cameron said the UK had "the right policy of saying that we won't pay ransoms to terrorists who kidnap our citizens".
"I know that this is difficult for families when they are the victims of these terrorists - but I'm absolutely convinced from what I've seen that this terrorist organisation, and indeed others around the world, have made tens of millions of dollars from these ransoms - and they spend that money on arming themselves, on kidnapping more people and on plotting terrorist outrages, including in our own country," he said.
He also called on other world leaders to apply the same view.
In other developments:
- Mr Cameron said sanctions pressure on Russia, which has been accused of sending troops into Ukraine, was "the right way to tell the Russians that what they are doing is unacceptable"
- Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was sure Nato allies would consider seriously any request from the Iraqi government for assistance in dealing with the growing insurgency by IS
- Mr Cameron and Mr Obama visited a local primary school ahead of the official start of the summit
- Protesters are marching from Newport cenotaph to Celtic Manor, where the summit is being held, for an anti-Nato demonstration
Also in their joint Times article, Mr Cameron and the US president said those who called for isolationism "misunderstood the nature of security in the 21st Century".
"Developments in other parts of the world, particularly in Iraq and Syria, threaten our security at home," they said.
They also said the UK and US would "not waver in our determination to confront" IS, adding: "Countries like Britain and America will not be cowed by barbaric killers."
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Wednesday that military action had not been ruled out.
Former Defence Secretary Liam Fox called on the prime minister to support military action.
"I detect a hardening of attitude among MPs who, with every atrocity, want to know why we're not using every means at our disposal to deal with the threat," he added.
Assad talks callA year ago, British MPs narrowly voted not to take military action against the regime of Syrian President Mr al-Assad, which was accused of using chemical weapons against its own people during the country's ongoing civil war.
But the regime opposes IS, leading to calls for talks with Mr Assad.
Sir William Patey, a former British ambassador to Iraq and Saudi Arabia, said Britain "shouldn't rule out" a deal that "brings together the Assad regime and the known IS opposition together with Iran, with Russia, with the Saudis".
Labour MP Peter Hain said the West could not "resolve the Syrian side of the conflict" with IS unless it dealt with Mr Assad.
In their Times article, Mr Cameron and Mr Obama also said Nato must also stand up to Russia.
"With Russia trying to force a sovereign state to abandon its right to democracy at the barrel of a gun, we should support Ukraine's right to determine its own democratic future and continue our efforts to enhance Ukrainian capabilities," they wrote.
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