There is no question that British jihadists continue to further destabilise the Syrian Civil War. Moreover, in the last year, we have seen Britons becoming suicide bombers in Syria, allegedly perpetrating war crimes and, according to intelligence reports, posing an active threat to UK national security. It comes as no surprise that these acts would all be prosecuted under our current counter-terrorism legislation, but it is not so well-known that the legal threshold for terrorism charges is much lower. We would do well not to propagate the myth that these men are freedom fighters or that they should be compared to Britons who fought in the Spanish Civil War; both legally and politically, times have changed considerably since 1939.