UK resident ‘did everything he could to join IS’ – ambition was ‘martyrdom’

Mohamed Mohamoud, 22, travelled to Somalia in a bid to join IS after viewing extreme material on social media.A man has been jailed for trying to join Islamic State (IS) after being radicalised by extreme content on social media. Mohamed Mohamoud, a 22-year-old Somalian national who lived with his mother and brother in Bristol, left the UK on January 30, 2025.