Can you use your passport between other countries if you are banned from leaving your home country?

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In general only three things are going to be relevant to the visiting country, assuming you have gone through all the processes normally required to get admittance:

  1. Is your passport valid - specifically has it been cancelled by the home country. If it has been cancelled then they will not let you in. Normally when a country officially cancels a passport they make you surrender it. Neither of these seem to have happened in your case. Note that invalidating a passport is rare. If a country doesn't want you to travel then they simply take your passport from you. That's much easier than telling every country in the world that your passport is invalid.
  2. Has your home country asked for you to be arrested and extradited. This can happen - for example if you are suspected of a crime and you attempt to flee then your home country might ask any country you visit to arrest you and return you. Your passport is fairly irrelevant here, as the arrest notice says "arrest this person" not "arrest the person with this passport", since criminals have been known to use fake or alternative passports. Whether the visiting country complies is dependent on a whole lot of things.
  3. Has your home country persuaded the visiting country that they should not welcome you. They can do this without formally charging you with a crime - it just involves convincing the visiting country not to let you in. Countries can deny entry to anyone if they think admitting them would not be in their interests. This has to be done for each country you visit. Again the passport is only peripherally important, since they want you to be excluded whatever passport you are using.

If none of those things happen then the visiting country is unlikely to prevent you entering. That doesn't mean you aren't violating the laws of your home country.

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This depends a lot on the specific countries involve so there is no "one size fits all answer"

He says his passport allows him to travel freely between countries even if he has a ban.

That's generally correct. Unless the country you are trying to enter shares a data base with your home country, the border control will not know about your ban. They also might not care. They are not enforcers for other countries unless both countries have very close relationships. If your passports meets the travel requirements, you can travel with it.

... these people would have easier time getting a passport from European countries.

Highly unlikely. You may be able to get refugee status and ask for asylum but that doesn't give a you passport. That's a long and arduous route.

I think A few European countries are funding the said terrorist organization.

What the heck is that supposed to mean ?

He also said if he illegally crosses borders to another country from his home country, he can use his passport to fly to countries with no issues.

Depends. Most countries don't care if you illegally leave another country. However, they deeply care whether you illegally enter their own country. Crossing a border contains two steps: leaving country A and entering country B. Doing the second step illegally is likely to get you in trouble: Unless there are special exemptions in place, you would get deported and banned from country B.

If you manage to legally enter B (by presenting yourself at a point of entry) and you are admitted, you may indeed be allowed to travel onwards with your existing passport. As long as it's not revoked or invalidated, it's a valid travel document

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