Norwegian prosecutors are seeking an eight-year jail sentence for a jihadist who they say fought for the Islamic State group and an affiliate of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Ishaq Ahmed a 24-year-old Norwegian left for Syria in 2013. Prosecutors say he fought for IS before joining the Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate. He could face up to nine years in jail if found guilty of ‘support for a terrorist organisation’.
Ahmed insists he is innocent and that he was in Syria carrying out humanitarian work. But prosecutors maintain that in the months before his departure he carried out online research into weapons and body armour and have found no evidence of humanitarian work or any effort to procure medical materials. His is the second trial in Norway over suspected links to the IS militants.