A picture has emerged of a young white male posing with guns who it's claimed joined Isis after missing out on university. The image, which shows him sitting with a machine gun between two Isis fighters, was uploaded to Twitter with the message 'meet Jonathan Edwards applied for UCAS to [sic] late and wasn't accepted in any university, so he joined Islamic State'.
reacting to this,'The UK advises against all travel to Syria and parts of Iraq.Saying
Anyone who does travel to these areas, even for humanitarian reasons, is putting themselves in considerable danger of harm.'
It follows news that a jihadist calling himself Abu Abdel Malik al-Britani became the 35th Briton to have been killed while fighting for ISIS in Syria this week.
He was pictured smiling as he posed with an M16 assault rifle outside a sports shop.
Today it was revealed that US-led air strikes in Syria and Iraq have killed more than 1,000 jihadis in the past three months, nearly all of them from the Islamic State.
'At least 1,171 have been killed in the Arab and international air strikes [since September 23], including 1,119 jihadists of the Islamic State group and Al-Nusra Front,' said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists and medics across the war-ravaged country for its information.
Among the dead were 1,046 members of IS, which has seized large chunks of Iraq and Syria and is the main target of the air campaign.
According to dailymail,The greatest number of Britons killed fighting for ISIS, however, have been killed in street battles with Kurdish YPG and Peshmerga troops, who have been making huge gains in northern Syria and western Iraq since September, having lost vast swaths of territory to ISIS earlier in the year.
In recent weeks there have been a number of reports of British militants expressing their desire to return to Britain having grown disillusioned with the reality of fighting for ISIS.
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