07-02-2018 19:03 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Briton who fought IS charged with terror offence

A British man will become the first person to have fought Islamic State to be charged with a terror offence.Met Police have said that James Matthews, 43, will be formally charged with "attending a place used for terrorist training" when he appears at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 14 February.Many British men have travelled to Syria to fight IS with the YPG, which is mostly made up of Kurdish men and women, and a number of them have died in the conflict.
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