Family urges amnesty as anti-IS Australian arrives home

An Australian who joined Kurds battling the Islamic State group in Syria arrived home on Monday, as his parents called him "a hero" and pleaded with authorities not to charge him under foreign-fighter laws.

Ashley Dyball, 23, was detained in Germany while taking a break from a Kurdish military campaign against IS in northern Syria and was deported on Saturday night.

He touched down in Melbourne and was questioned by federal police officers for several hours before being allowed to travel on to Brisbane, where he is from.