LONDON - Britain is reported to take 15,000 refugees from Syria and is considering military action against ISIS militants within one month, reported The Sunday Times on Sunday.

The newspaper said by citing senior source from British government that the No. 10 of Downing Street had once discussing a figure as high as 20,000, but Prime Minister David Cameron’s “current thinking” will see around 15,000 people in refugee camps on the Syrian border resettled in Britain.

“Until now it has been suggested Britain would take between 4, 000 and 10,000 refugees. But one senior official said 10,000 was now the ‘minimum not the maximum’,” noted The Sunday Times.

And among the reported four-point plan on Britain’s efforts in alleviating the humanitarian crisis, Britain is considering launching a military and intelligence offensive against the people traffickers, diverting foreign aid to the crisis as part of the government spending review, as well as persuading Members of Parliament to back airstrikes in ...(More on P4)...(24)