Captured ISIS Fighter from Alexandria Area: Reports

PHOTO: Muhammad Jamal Khweis, 26, of the Alexandria area, is shown in this photo from a video posted Monday morning to Twitter by Kurdish fighter @ Kurdistan83 (earlier reports identified him as Muhammad Jamal Amin, 27).

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ALEXANDRIA, VA -- An ISIS fighter captured Monday showed his captors a driver's license that identifies him as being from the Alexandria, Va., area according to a report by ABC News.

The reported ISIS fighter who surrendered Monday, Muhammad Jamal Khweis, 26, walked into an area controlled by the Kurdish Peshmerga near the Turkish border, according to the report. Peshmerga are the military forces of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Fairfax County Public Schools identified the man as a 2007 graduate of Edison High School in the Kingstowne area of Fairfax County, according to a report by WUSA-9.

Khweis was not flagged in any U.S. security database, NBC News' Richard Engel reported Monday night; the United States, he reported, didn't know Khweis had gone to fight for ISIS until he gave himself up on Monday.

The Associated Press spoke Monday to Khweis' father, who lives in the Kingstowne area of Fairfax County.

Outside the Khweis home Monday, near Edison High School, heated words were exchanged between Khweis' father and reporters gathered outside and he reportedly pushed and hit cameras and turned a water hose on them, according to a report by WUSA-9. Police arrived to try to calm the situation. The father said he had spoken with the FBI Monday, trying to find out what's going on with his son.

"That's him. I cannot believe it," his uncle, Kamal Khweis, told NBC News Monday. "He doesn't even speak Arabic. ISIS? I cannot believe this."

Kamal Khweis told NBC News that his nephew told his family he was going to Europe for vacation and when they last heard from him, he said he was in Greece.

Khweis walked up to a checkpoint in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, CBS News reported. The Associated Press reported that he had a large amount of cash with him.

In a video posted Monday morning by a Kurdish fighter, Khweis is seen talking to his captors. He reportedly tells them he is from both the United States and Mosul, Iraq:

He is described as an ISIS defector by CBS News.

Peshmerga officials told ABC News that Khweis claims to have a Palestinian-born father and an Iraqi mother. The report noted that it is uncertain whether the man is American.

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad told CBS News it could not confirm the detention of an American.