In the last three years, more than 500 radicalised Britons are believed to have headed out to the war-torn country, where Islamist groups are fighting
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's forces.
But some of those who signed up to fight have now contacted authorities in Britannia saying they have had enough of the war-zone and want to return home, it was reported today.
A man representing a group of 30 gunnies reportedly contacted King's College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), telling them his group want to come back.
The men, who went to the region in the hope of toppling President Assad, are reportedly unhappy at having to fight against other rebel factions.
According to The Times, the man told researchers: 'We came to fight the regime and instead we are involved in gang warfare. It's not what we came for but if we go back [to Britannia] we will go to jail.'The ICSR's Professor Peter Neumann told newspaper: 'The people we have been talking to... want to quit but feel trapped because all the Government is talking about is locking them up for 30 years.'
He believes as many as a fifth of British fighters in the country could be trying to find a way out of their current situation.
He claimed less-hardened jihadists could be used to show would-be recruits that the reality of battle may not match the image presented by ISIS propaganda.
At least 40 of the estimated 250 Britons to have already returned from the region have been locked away
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and are now facing trial on terrorism charges.