David Cameron will address MPs on the Algerian hostage crisis later, as efforts continue to locate three remaining Britons feared dead.
A raid by Algerian troops on Saturday ended a four-day siege that is thought to have left at least 48 hostages dead.
Three Britons' deaths have already been confirmed, and a UK-based Colombian is also thought to be dead.
The prime minister has said there could be a decades-long battle against Islamist terrorism in north Africa.
The first British victim to be officially named was 46-year-old Paul Thomas Morgan.
In a statement from Mr Morgan's mother, Marianne, 65, and his 36-year-old partner, Emma Steele, he was described as "a true gentleman, a family man".
"He very much loved his partner Emma, his mum, brothers and sister, of who he was very proud," the statement said. "He loved life and lived it to the full. He was a professional man proud to do the job he did and died doing the job he loved.
"We are so proud of him and so proud of what he achieved in his life. We are devastated by Paul's death and he will be truly missed."
Twenty-two British survivors have been flown back to the UK and reunited with their families.
'Global response'Speaking on Sunday, Mr Cameron said: "What we face is an extremist, Islamist, al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group. Just as we had to deal with that in Pakistan and in Afghanistan so the world needs to come together to deal with this threat in north Africa."
- 16 January: Militants attack two buses carrying In Amenas workers, killing two
- They then go on to the gas facility's living quarters and main installation, seizing hostages
- Some gas workers manage to escape
- 17 January: Algerian forces attack after the militants try to move their hostages in five 4x4s - four of the vehicles are destroyed in an air strike and an unknown number of hostages killed
- 18 January: Stalemate as Algerian forces surround the gas plant where the remaining hostages are held
- 19 January: Algerian forces launch a final assault after reports that the hostage-takers were killing their captives
- 20 January: Algeria says death toll of 32 hostage-takers and at least 23 captives is likely to rise
The prime minister said that there were clear similarities with the terrorist threat based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, although it was on a different scale.
He said: "This is a global threat and it will require a global response. It will require a response that is about years, even decades, rather than months."
Algerian officials previously said 32 militants had been killed, ahead of reports that five hostage-takers were captured at the gas plant at In Amenas on Sunday.
Algerian officials said the hostage-takers - from six different nationalities - belonged to a new Islamist group formed by a veteran Algerian militant and kidnapper, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who recently broke from al-Qaeda.
Mauritanian website Sahara Media says he has claimed responsibility for the hostage-taking in a video message.
The video is said to have showed Belmokhtar claiming he was prepared to negotiate with Western and Algerian leaders if French military offensives against Islamists in neighbouring Mali were stopped.
The crisis began on Wednesday when militants attacked two buses carrying foreign workers and Algerians to the remote site in south-eastern Algeria. A Briton and an Algerian reportedly died at the scene.
The militants then took Algerians and foreign workers hostage at the complex, which was quickly surrounded by the Algerian army.
The nationalities of some of the hostages killed are still not known, but as well as the Britons, US, Norwegian, and Japanese nationals are also missing.
State news agency APS said 685 Algerian workers and 107 out of 132 foreigners working at the plant had been freed.
Among the Britons, two of the survivors have been named as Lou Fear, 56, from Louth in Lincolnshire and Allen McCloud, 53, from Plymouth in Devon.
Other freed hostages have been named as Iain Strachan, 38, from Howwood in Renfrewshire; Darren Matthews, from Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Teesside; Mark Grant, 29, from Grangemouth, near Falkirk; Alan Wright, 37, from Portsoy in Aberdeenshire; Peter Hunter, 53, from County Durham; David Murray, 47, from Kirkby in Merseyside; Huw Edwards, 55, from Macclesfield in Cheshire; Martin Johnson, 62, of Todmorden in West Yorkshire; Tony Grisedale, 60, from Workington in Cumbria and Stephen McFaul, 36, from Belfast.
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