A British Isil suspect has been freed from detention in Syria amid a growing row over whether the UK should repatriate captured jihadists.
The current location of Shabazz Suleman, 23, from High Wycombe, Bucks, is unknown, raising the prospect he could now be at large.
He was being held by the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) on the Turkey-Syria border after he was caught fleeing Islamic State territory in October, 2017.
But last month he was tried by a Syrian opposition-run court in the city of Jarablus, which found him not guilty despite his admission that he joined the terrorist group, a commander with Liwa al-Shimal (the Northern Front) battalion told the Telegraph.
Commander Abu Sleiman said…
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