(ITV) One of the first British men to join so-called Islamic State has been traced to a prison in northern Syria by ITV News, where he said he misses his mother, his old life in Cardiff, and wants to return home.
Aseel Muthana was presumed dead after travelling to Syria in 2014 aged 17, leaving Cardiff where he had worked as an ice cream salesman.
When told by ITV News he was alive, his mother said she felt “extreme joy” and urged authorities to bring him home.
Aseel followed his brother Nasser Muthana and a friend, [Reyaad] Khan, who had already joined so-called IS and featured in one of the group’s first propaganda videos aimed at western recruits.
