A British former medical student who went to Syria to joining ISIS claims he has the “right” to return to the UK.
Ibrahim Ageed, 29, was studying at the University of Medical Sciences and Technology (UMST) in Sudan before he joined the terror group back in 2015, along with his brother Mohamed.
Originally from Leicester, he is currently being held at Al-Sina Prison in Al-Hasakah, northeastern Syria.
But Ibrahim has now made a new plea to be brought back to Britain, saying he has the right to be back in the country - even if he is immediately hauled before the courts.
He told The News Movement: "I believe I'll be subjected to the justice system but I'm ready to face the music and I believe it's my right basically to go back home."
The Guardian reported in 2017 that Ageed's Dad has always argued that there is no evidence that his sons have ever volunteered to fight and therefore should not be considered terrorists.
He told the Observer at the time the family believe his sons attempted to travel to Syria "purely for humanitarian reasons".
Describing the shape of the Islamic State group in 2023, Ibrahim claimed they had been “significantly weakened."
He continued: "Whether they have the ability to resurge or not. I'm not sure I've been completely, I've been completely isolated for like nearly four years now."
A doctor's son and a former pupil at the fee-paying Loughborough Grammar School, he told journalist Lucy Marley that he now had a wife, who he had met during his time with ISIS when they were both 23.
But of the nearly 1,000 Britons who upped travelled to Syria, Shamima Begum, who was 15 at the time, is the name who stands out for most.
She was found by journalist Anthony Lloyd in a camp in 2019 after the so-called Islamic State lost the ground war in Syria. In this first interview, she appeared to show no remorse for allegedly aiding and abetting the militant group, which infuriated Britons and ultimately led to the stripping of her British citizenship.
Now aged 23 and confined in a camp in northern Syria, Ms Begum recently told the BBC that she knows the public now see her "as a danger, as a risk, as a potential risk to them, to their safety, to their way of living".
But she said that "I'm not this person that they think I am".
She also admitted to joining a terrorist group and that she had been "relieved" to make it out of the UK with an expectation at the time of never returning.
In October, a British woman and her child were repatriated from a Syrian camp. It was the first time an adult has been allowed to come back to the UK from detention in the country.
It is estimated about 60 Britons, including 35 children, are being held in indefinite detention in Syria.
