An Australian man from Queensland has been detained in Germany and is faced with the risk of being charged. Ashley Dyball’s lawyers have confirmed that the 23-year-old man has been detained. Dyball was fighting against the Islamic State with a Kurdish militia in Northern Syria.

Dyball was fighting alongside a Kurdish YPG militia called Lions of Rojava but during a break from the battlefield, he had to travel through Europe, according to reports. According to his lawyer, Jessie Smith, it is not clear whether he will be facing charges or will be sent back to northern Iraq, the place where his flight might have originated, the ABC reported.

According to Australian foreign fighter law, any Australian who attempts to fight against an established government of a country will be criminalised. The laws have been framed to prevent Australians from joining armed groups like the ISIS in other countries. Thus the position of Dyball, like any other Australian fighting against the ISIS, is quite uncertain even if he decides to return to Brisbane, the ABC reported.

Dyball has been fighting with the militia since May. He left his home saying he was going for a vacation. Another Australian, Ashley Johnston, and his friend Reece Harding were killed while fighting against the IS. After his friends and family learnt of his whereabouts, they pleaded him to return.

"I can sit at home doing nothing with myself or I can stay here and help liberate the innocent children and women to give them a better chance at life that we all so luckily have," he said in June.

In his interview to 60 Minutes, he said that his task was to disarm explosives and not to fight on the front line.

Dyball’s lawyers are also representing Jamie Williams, a Melbourne man who was intercepted at the Melbourne Airport while he was travelling to the Middle East to join the YPG and was charged under the foreign fighters law.

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