European Jihadi: The Danish Gangster Who Joined the Syrian Frontline

Gangster and drug dealer Abderrozak Benarabe, or Big A as he's known on the streets of Copenhagen, made a deal with God that if his brother was delivered from cancer he would redeem his criminal ways and go to fight jihad in Syria alongside his fellow foreign fighters and child soldiers under 16. Director Nagieb Khaja followed Big A from his gang in Denmark into brutally-intense battle on the jihadi frontline in Syria and back to Copenhagen to amass and smuggle supplies to the fighters across the Greek-Turkish border


WARNING: This film contains scenes of death and injury in battle and testimony from the family of an alleged victim of torture. Some viewers may find these scenes upsetting

Teenage Europeans Joining Jihad in War-torn Syria

Thousands of foreign fighters are joining jihadist rebels in Syria. The lion's share still comes from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia; however more hot-headed youngsters are coming from Europe. They are ready to take up arms against President Assad. RT's Peter Oliver has more. After we talked to one Belgian father whose son joined the Islamist rebels, Dimitry Bontinck.

Joining Jihad: Self-radicalized EU Youths Flood Syria's Frontlines

Syria could see the influx of European weaponry, that's if EU leaders make a decision on supplying lethal aid to rebel fighters. Thursday is an unofficial deadline for a decision to be made it was set in May and lobbied for by the UK and France.However since then EU ministers seem to have had a change of heart concerned by a surge of foreigners now fighting in the country. RT talked to Dimitri Bontinck, whose son went to Syria to join jihadist forces.