Tareq Kamleh was presumed to have been killed in Syria over a decade ago, but was actually being held in a high-security Baghdad prison, according to a report by The Australian.

A Perth-born pediatrician accused of fighting for ISIS “can rot in jail” a minister said after it was revealed he was alive despite being thought dead for almost a decade.

An Australian-trained doctor who fled to Syria to become a prominent Islamic State member has been found alive nearly a decade after his reported death.