A video footage from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, depicting a desperate man calling for help and identifying himself as an Ethiopian, who had gone to the war-torn city of Deir el-Zour to fight for ISIS, has surfaced this week. The man identified as Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed alleges, he had travelled from Canada to Syria in 2013, before he was captured in a gun battle. According to his friends in Toronto, the man embraced a fanatic religious conviction and changed his name as, Abu Ridwan, before he decided to flight in Syria. Like a number of western societies, the North American nation continues to struggle with accommodating returnees from the battle grounds ofnations it deems against its national interest. In the midst of an election year and where the issue of citizenship is expected to be a wedge political issue, there is little appetite to help the man, commentators say.

Source: Ethiopian News February 23, 2019 07:29 UTC