Three years ago, Albert and Yassin left their homes in Kosovo and Albania to wage jihad in Syria. Now they’re back, swelling the ranks of jihadists in a region the Islamic State has called a “new front” in Europe.

Yassin, 30, who now works as a halal butcher in a downtrodden suburb of Albania’s capital Tirana, refused to give his real name out of fear of repercussions.

Wounded in Syria’s battered northern city of Aleppo in 2014, the father-of-three told AFP he left “to help the Syrian people” and hopes Allah will recognise his sacrifice, even if he did not die a martyr.

Albert Berisha, a 29-year-old political science graduate, says he took an “emotional decision” to leave for the Middle East “after seeing on TV and social media what was happening in Syria.”

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