Leaked Isis files appear to reveal names of previously unknown British fighters

Personnel files from Isis appear to reveal the names of a number of previously unknown British foreign fighters who have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamist terror group. Fourteen Isis recruitment forms which set out the names, dates of birth, home towns and recruiter details, were passed to the Guardian from German newspaperSüddeutsche Zeitung. While half of the names appear to be known to the public, a number of them, if genuine, seem to be new additions to the roster of hundreds of British fighters who are understood to have travelled to the Middle East to join the organisation in Iraq and Syria.

One foreign fighter listed in the documents alongside a UK mobile number is believed to have lived in Arsenal, North London. The Guardian has as yet been unable to make contact with the relatives of another as yet unknown young Italian whose last known address was a short distance away in Finsbury Park, London.

At least half of the names in the personnel forms explicitly dealing with British foreign fighters are well known to the public. They include the names of all but one of a group of six jihadis from Portsmouth who came to be known as thePompey lads.