A NAILSWORTH man who threatened to give up his job to go to Iraq to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) has now decided against it.

Kyle Sessions, 22, told the SNJ that he had spoken to his father and other family members, who felt the trip would be dangerous.

He said he “agreed with them” and had now decided to “cease all my efforts”.

Co-op store assistant Kyle, said he was fed up with the UK government’s handling of the terrorist group and its indiscriminate massacre of Christians and said he wanted to do what he could to help.

Before he changed his mind about going Kyle felt that despite having no military experience he still felt prepared: "I did go to the local Cubs and Scout groups when I was younger and have a lot of camping and survival experience which will be useful and I have several years experience with hand to hand combat, so I do have some combat experience as well.”

When considering the trip Sessions, contacted a militia group calling itself Dwekh Nawsha - meaning self sacrifice - which is the same organisation Locks joined.

The militia which has over 15,000 followers on Facebook is made up of Assyrian Christians who consider themselves the indigenous people of Iraq and defenders of Assyria.

Kyle said: "I intend to go to Iraq and am currently gathering supplies, including military equipment, clothing and medical kit.

"I want to fight against ISIS because I am getting annoyed with the lack of support from my own government.

"At the moment, all they are doing is talking about aid, and military support, but no action is being taken, and I wish that they could send some troops, even if it was only a few hundred people to help support the civilians and militia who are taking the fight against ISIS.

"It’s very unlikely that ISIS will be defeated within a couple of months of me being there, but I feel that, by staying around six months to a year, I will be able to help and hopefully within that year, there will be a significant change and ISIS will be pushed back even if its in a small way."

The Co-op worker previously spoke to the SNJ in 2013 when he proposed to his girlfriend Racheal Dunn at his local Tae Kwon Do club.

Kyle had also contacted another group fighting against ISIS called the Nineveh Plain Protection Units.

He said: "They patrol the countryside where attacks are becoming more and more frequent, and they have replied back giving me some contact details and I have sent them information about myself and what I feel I can bring to help assist them with their fight."

Dwekh Nawsha is a Christian militia brigade in Iraqs Ninawa province fighting ISIS.

It operates alongside Kurdish peshmerga forces to protect Christian villages on the frontline in Nineveh province in northern Iraq.

In response to the ISIS brutality against Christians in the northern city of Mosul, by means of forced conversions and death, groups claiming to represent Christians have responded by forming armed self-protection brigades, of which Nawsha is an example.

The group's role is currently more defensive, and though support is provided to the Kurdish peshmerga, limited capabilities do not make the brigade a significant factor in the conflict.