Australian Isis fighter Neil Prakash to be extradited from Turkey within months Read moreThe Australian government’s focus was on intelligence that Prakash could share on Islamic State, Bishop’s cabinet colleague Greg Hunt said on Sunday. The former Melbourne man, whose father was Fijian Indian and his mother Cambodian, is accused in Turkey of planning and encouraging Islamic State terrorist attacks on Australians. Iraqi officials at the time said he was in a bank commandeered by Islamic State to sort money for distribution across its so-called caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria. Prakash reportedly told Turkish police he had decided to quit fighting for Islamic State after suffering arm and chest injuries from the bombing by the Kurdish opponents YPG/PKK in Kobane. While recuperating at a health centre in Membic, Prakash told his IS commander he did not want to fight and obtained transfer to another group in Raqqa.

Source: The Guardian August 13, 2017 03:00 UTC