Childhood friends Mohammed Ahmed and Yusuf Sarwar, both 22, from Birmingham, have been given extended sentences of 17 years and eight months at Woolwich Crown Court for travelling to Syria to join an al Qaida-linked terrorist group.
Childhood friends Mohammed Ahmed and Yusuf Sarwar, both 22, from Birmingham, have been given extended sentences of 17 years and eight months at Woolwich Crown Court for travelling to Syria to join an al Qaida-linked terrorist group.
The sentences consist of twelve years eight months in prison and a further five years on licence.
The two pleaded guilty last July to travelling to Syria to join up with an extremist fighting group.
They had spent eight months out of the country after telling their families they were going on a holiday to Turkey.
Officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit arrested the men when they came back to the UK in January.
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