Islamic State fighter Khaled Sharrouf, who gained infamy after his young son was pictured holding a severed head, is believed to have become the first dual national stripped of Australian citizenship under anti-terrorism laws.
A spokeswoman for the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, told Guardian Australia on Saturday an individual had been stripped of citizenship under anti-terror laws which passed parliament in 2015.
She declined to name the person but the Australian newspaper reported it is dual national Sharrouf.
He went to fight with Isis in Syria in 2013, a year after being released from prison for his role in a terrorism plot.
In 2015, there were unconfirmed reports Sharrouf had died in a drone strike in Mosul. However he continued to be the subject of an active arrest warrant.
He gained infamy for posing in photographs with the severed heads of Syrian soldiers in 2014.
Sharrouf’s seven-year-old son was pictured holding up the severed head of a Syrian government official around the same time.
In February last year it was reported the widow of Sharrouf had died in Syria, leaving her five children and a grandchild stranded and in hiding in Raqqa.
Tara Nettleton is believed to have died from complications after an operation for appendicitis in September. Nettleton followed Sharrouf to Syria from Sydney with their children in 2014.
