A QUEENSLAND man who feared he may never be allowed to return after joining the war in Syria has been given a hero’s welcome upon touching down in Australia.

Ashley Dyball, 23, together with his friend Reece Harding, also 23, left for the war-torn country to participate in “humanitarian work” in May this year.

Telling their families they were travelling abroad for a number of months, the pair failed to mention their humanitarian mission would take them to troubled Syria.

The Brisbane boys had travelled to Syria to join the Kurdish militia, or YPG, fighting Islamic State in northern Syria.

While Harding was killed in combat when he stepped on a landmine fighting against IS in July, Dyball stayed on.

He is understood to have travelled to Germany while taking time out from his anti-terror fight, where he was arrested by German authorities and deported to Australia.

The Brisbane man was met by Australian Federal Police officers at Melbourne airport last night, who took him for questioning.

Australian law forbids citizens to fight for either side of the Syrian conflict, and those who enter the war zone to assist victims of the brutal terror outfit may be open to the same treatment as anyone fighting with IS and supporting its apocalyptic goals.

However, Mr Dyball’s parents say their son is “not a criminal” and are confident he will be allowed to remain at home with them over Christmas.

Mr Dyball was given a hero’s welcome from his family and supporters, and will return to his family home in Brisbane.

He is understood to have been interviewed by AFP officers and released without charge.

“This is wrong, what the Government is trying to do to him is wrong,” Mr Dyball’s father Scott said of possible criminal prosecution faced by his son.

The family has reportedly appealed directly to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

“The charges are just so ridiculous, they should be dropped. The law was unclear at the time, if they were clear the boys would not have gone.

“All we are asking is just an amnesty.”

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Mr Dyball’s parents had travelled to Syria to meet their son and convince him to come home earlier this year.

In an emotional reunion, the Dyballs told their son how they had been heavily lobbying for the Australian government to review the foreign fighters bill to make a distinction between foreign fighters and “freedom fighters” like Ashley.