Two young British men who travelled to Syria to join an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group have been jailed for nearly 13 years. Childhood friends Mohammed Ahmed and Yusuf Sarwar, from Birmingham, fled to the war-torn country in May last year after contacting Islamic extremists. The men, both 22, were arrested on their return to the UK in January and pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorism acts contrary to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act. Mohammed Nahin Ahmed (right) and Yusuf Zubair Sarwar in an undated picture supplied by West Midlands Police They were...
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