High alert for foreign fighter threat as Islamic State crumbles

By Daniel Flitton and Deborah Snow
Updated October 22 2016 - 1:08pm, first published 12:15am
AFP Deputy Commissioner Mike Phelan addresses the media. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
AFP Deputy Commissioner Mike Phelan addresses the media. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Australian jihadists attempting to return home as battle erupts around the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul should be locked up if they return, or placed under the "closest monitoring we can arrange" according to former army chief Peter Leahy.