US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio said the incident near RAF Fairford was a "very serious situation" and praised the British authorities The group of five young British men were released on bail Monday and counterterror detectives said they were investigating “multiple lines of inquiry.” Key points and original sources are listed below.

• US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio said the incident near RAF Fairford was a "very serious situation" and praised the British authoritiesS1

• The group of five young British men were released on bail Monday and counterterror detectives said they were investigating “multiple lines of inquiry.”S2

• Prime Minister Andy Burnham chaired an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday.S3

• Top US diplomat says the incident ‘clearly involves the hand of a foreign actor’S4

• Allegations of a terror plot targeting a Royal Air Force base used by US forces have drawn an unusually pointed intervention from Washington, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying the incident “clearly involves the hand of a foreign actor” while declin...S5

• "Suffice it to say that what happened, what almost happened, what could have happened in the UK over the weekend is a very serious situation," Rubio said.S6

• The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bailUS secretary of state Marco Rubio has said unequivocally that a foreign actor was involved in the suspected...S7

• The top diplomat described the incident close to the military site in Gloucestershire as a ‘very serious situation’.S8