Jamshed Javeed, 30, from Manchester, was said by police to have begun backing the cause of the group, also known as Isis and Isil, in August last year after becoming radicalised.
In a desperate attempt to stop him travelling to the war-torn country, Javeed's family took and hid his passport but he told them he was determined to make the trip.
The married father of two was arrested in December by counter-terrorism officers amid fears that he was preparing to fly out to Syria via Turkey with equipment he had bought for use on the battlefields.
He pleaded guilty at London's Woolwich Crown Court yesterday to two counts of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.
Detective Chief Superintendent Tony Mole, head of the north west of England counter-terrorism unit, said: "The evidence indicates he has got together with a group determined to go out to Syria and fight, despite the efforts of his family who were against it."
Meanwhile, the family of London doctor Abbas Khan, 33, who died in a Syrian prison have hailed a jury's verdict that he was unlawfully killed as a vindication of their fight for the truth.
The father-of-two died in December 2013 in Damascus. Yesterday an inquest jury concluded his death "unascertained" but "Dr Khan was deliberately and intentionally killed without any legal justification."
SOURCE: HeraldScotland
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