Isis: From Cardiff to the caliphate

(BBC) In 2013, Nasser Muthana and Reyaad Khan left their lives in Cardiff to fight for Islamic State in Syria.

Three months later Nasser’s younger brother Aseel also went out to join them.

I went to sixth-form college with both Nasser and Reyaad, and Aseel had gone to my school.

I recently travelled to Syria for BBC Panorama to try and speak to Aseel and to find out why they left Cardiff to join such a brutal organisation.

Aseel Muthana

Aseel was pleased to see me. He’s spent two years in a crowded cell in north-east Syria. He is being held by the Kurdish forces who captured Islamic State group members at the last bloody battle of Baghuz.

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