An Ontario man who travelled to Syria to join an al-Qaida faction is being released from prison less than two years after pleading guilty.

10 weeks after the October 2014 terrorist attacks that killed two Canadian soldiers, the so-called Islamic State received an encrypted message from Ontario.

A former University of Waterloo student who travelled to Syria in 2014 to join the Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group Jabhat Al-Nusrah was sentenced to 4-1/2 years on Tuesday.

The RCMP arrested Kevin Omar Mohamed in Waterloo, Ont., in March. He pleaded guilty on June 2, 2017, to participating in the activity of a terrorist group. Details of the case had not been made public until Monday.

Kevin Omar Mohamed has been in custody since he was charged in March 2016 and officials say he'll be sentenced at a later date.

A man charged with a terrorism related offence was denied bail today in court in Brampton, Ont.