Inside Syria’s filthy hellhole jail packed with hundreds of British ISIS fighters that the US is demanding we bring home
SHOCKING images reveal the hellish reality for thousands of Brit ISIS fighters packed into filthy jails in Syria.
Some 12,000 jihadis are banged up in seven nightmarish prisons in the country’s Kurdish-controlled north-west after the fall of the so-called “Caliphate”.
At least a third of the inmates are foreign citizens, including hundreds of Brits, who the US is demanding their home countries allow back in.
But for now, many governments are reluctant to welcome home extremists who have fought for a terror group bent on destroying them.
And horrifying pictures show the grim reality for those foreigners stuck in limbo inside one jail, which houses 5,000 militants.
Jihadis in orange jumpsuits – similar to the ones their terrified victims were forced to wear in sick beheading videos – are seen lying on their sides crammed in together.
One Kenyan man shouted: “We deserve trial — give us that at least!”
Another Canadian cried: “We have no rights, no court, no sense of any destiny!”
Many in the cells – which also contain children – protest their innocence and none have been tried or convicted.
And their Kurdish captors have begged for help from the West, warning that the “situation could explode at any minute”.
Among the Brit prisoners is Cardiff ice cream salesman Aseel Muthana, 21, who travelled to Syria to join ISIS five years ago.
He was tracked down by ITV News after leaving to join the terror group along with his older brother Nasser and Reyaad Khan, who appeared in one of ISIS's first propaganda videos aimed at Western recruits.
He begged to return home and said he misses his mum, telling the broadcaster he had been tricked into joining.
Others like the wives and children of jihadis were spared prison but instead find themselves locked in refugee camps.
This week another such extremist - dubbed the ISIS matchmaker - begged to return to the UK.
Tooba Gondal, 25, said it was "not just" that the government abandoned her in a refugee camp.
She left London three years ago and gained notoriety for grooming jihadi brides with Shamima Begum thought to be among them.
Widow Gondal is at Ayn Issa camp, Syria, with her children following a failed escape bid from ISIS-held Baghouz.
Despite calling Britain "filthy" and praising the Paris terror attacks, Gondal begged: "We are living in dire conditions.
"I want to face justice in a British court. I wish to redeem myself. I would like Britain to accept my apology and to give me another chance."
Meanwhile Home Secretary Priti Patel has insisted there is "no way" Shamima Begum can return to the UK after a fresh plea from the ISIS bride who left London to join the terror group.
Ms Patel vowed to block Begum, who has been stripped of her citizenship, from coming back to the UK, claiming she "would do us harm".
Begum claimed all she did while living in the so-called caliphate was "make babies" – and pleaded to be allowed to return home.
She claimed her mental health is suffering and she now "hates"; the terror group after the death of her three kids.
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