Handout photo of a damaged pickup truck after it was hit by a Jordanian warplane following failure to heed warnings not to cross into Jordan from Syria April 16, 2014. REUTERS/www.ammonnews.net/Handout via Reuters
AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian Islamist Ahmad Mahmoud fought with rebels in Syria for six weeks earlier this year, then slipped back across the border to seek treatment for a war wound - even though the authorities had warned him not to return.
Within a week the bearded 23-year-old fighter found himself in the dock at a military court, facing terrorism charges filed by authorities who are taking an increasingly tough stance against homegrown militants fighting in Syria's civil war.
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