BREAKING NEWS: Thousands rally in UK and Spain against bombing Syria Protesters call on their respective countries not to get involved in Syria, as Paris attacks fuel political momentum.

Thousands of people have protested in London and Madrid against the potential participation of their respective countries in air strikes in Syria, as political momentum mounted to broaden the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

At least 5,000 people gathered in central London on Saturday, carrying placards reading "Don't bomb Syria", "Drop Cameron, not bombs" and "Don't add fuel to the fire."

"[Prime Minister] David Cameron's incoherent proposals for action in Syria will do nothing to weaken ISIL but will instead inflame the civil war, deepen the misery of the Syrian people and increase the terrorist risk," said the Stop the War Coalition protest movement.

Cameron on Thursday laid out the case for British fighter jets
, already bombing ISIL targets in Iraq, to join France, the US and others in targeting ISIL strongholds in neighbouring Syria.

A parliamentary vote on bombing Syria is expected as early as next week, and many formerly reluctant politicians are thought to have changed their minds after the Paris attacks earlier this month.


Also on Saturday, about 5,000 people demonstrated against potential Spanish involvement in the conflict, with protesters chanting "No to war" outside the Reina Sofia museum in the capital Madrid.

Protesters answered a "not in our name" petition from dozens of artists that has received about 34,000 online signatures to date, as European governments consider armed intervention.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who faces a December general election, said that he would hold off on any decision.

"Decisions have to be well thought through, as in any aspect of life," said Rajoy, who added Madrid was in touch with its allies pending a clear plan of action.

Rajoy's Popular Party is mindful of how in March 2004, under his predecessor Jose Maria Aznar, who had backed the US intervention in Iraq a year earlier, lost the general election which took place three days after 191 people were killed in a series of Madrid train bombings.



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