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TORONTO — ISIL is trying to “make a deal” in exchange for handing over the body of a Canadian it killed in Syria two weeks ago, his family said Wednesday.

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“Canada’s working on it,” said the sister of Nazzareno Tassone, an anti-ISIL volunteer fighter who was killed when the terrorist group attacked his position on Dec. 21.

Kurdish community leaders in Toronto told the family that ISIL “still had his body and they want to make a deal to hand it over,” Tassone’s sister Giustina said.

She said she did not know the details of ISIL’s demands but “we’ve been told that sometimes they either hand over money or they hand over ISIL bodies.”

The family has spoken to their MP about the matter and the Canadian embassy in Turkey was informed, she said. “They know what’s going on and they’re working on getting him back.”

Tassone left Edmonton in June to join the People’s Protection Units, also known as the YPG, the Kurdish militia that has been fighting ISIL in the region of northern Syria they call Rojava.

“He told me he wanted to go to Rojava to fight Daesh,” said another international fighter who met him there, using another name for ISIL. “He felt Canada wasn’t doing enough to help so it was his job to step up.”