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Post by Admin on Nov 26, 2015 7:51:27 GMT
One of the two teenager girls who ran away from their home in Austria to join terror group Isis has reportedly been beaten to death after trying to flee their Syrian stronghold. Samra Kesinovic, 17, left her Austrian home she shared with her parents in April 2014 and, along with friend Sabina Selimovic, travelled to Syria to join Isis, becoming ‘poster girls’ for the group. Austrian newspapers have reported that Samra was killed by the extremists after she tried to escape Raqqa, their main stronghold in Syria, however the Austrian government has not commented on the case. Her friend Sabina, who was 15 when she travelled to Syria, was thought to have been killed in fighting last year.
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Post by Admin on Dec 19, 2015 7:19:11 GMT
A 17-year-old girl from Linköping in southern Sweden has been arrested in Austria. According to her family, she was heading to Syria to join the Isis extremist group. The girl had been on the international wanted list since Wednesday when her family reported that she had left Sweden to join up with Isis in Syria, Swedish newspaper Expressen, which broke the story reported. “The girl was reported missing earlier in the week and she was then put on all wanted lists, even internationally,” said Torbjörn Lindqvist, duty officer for Linköping police. The girl was reportedly arrested in Vienna, Austria, on Saturday afternoon. This was due to her family having managed to track her phone, and then informing the Austrian police. “According to the family, the girl has been radicalized in recent times. She has watched several videos that are linked to Isis, and talked positively about Isis in certain contexts. The family has also found notes in which she expresses support for people who have been indicted in the UK for having connections to Isis,” Lindqvist said.
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Post by Admin on Feb 25, 2016 1:14:44 GMT
A 16-year-old Swedish girl will soon be heading home after spending almost a year living in city of Mosul, an Iraqi city controlled by the Islamic State. Marlin Stivani Nivarlain, from Borås, Sweden, joined ISIS voluntarily early last year. But when she arrived in Mosul, life was not what she expected it to be. "When I was there, I didn’t have anything. It was a really hard life," Nivarlain told Kurdish television station Kurdistan 24. Kurdish forces rescued Nivarlain from the city on Feb. 17, according to a statement from the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC). Counterterrorism forces rescued her in an area outside of Mosul after Swedish authorities appealed to them for help in finding her. Nivarlain and the Kurds said she was being held against their will. She dropped out of school when she was 14 and met her boyfriend, who she said she followed to join ISIS. Local Swedish outlets reported that she was pregnant at the time that the pair fled, but Nivarlain didn't mention that in the interview. She said she didn’t know anything about Islam or ISIS before meeting her boyfriend, but was willing to go along with his plan to travel to Iraq and join the militants. "He said he wanted to go to ISIS and I said to him, 'OK no problem, because I didn’t know what ISIS means,'" Nivarlain said in the televised interview, seen below. The full English-language version can be seen here.
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Post by Admin on Aug 12, 2016 21:28:23 GMT
A schoolgirl who left the UK to join Islamic State in Syria is feared to have been killed in an airstrike in the country. Kadiza Sultana was one of three teenage girls who fled east London and entered Syria via Turkey last year. The 17-year-old was living in the terror group's stronghold city of Raqqa and is feared to have been killed a few weeks ago, her family's solicitor has told Sky News.
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Post by Admin on Feb 18, 2019 18:29:49 GMT
A British teenager who fled her home and joined the Islamic State in Syria says she now wants to come home — not because she is remorseful for joining the violent extremist group but so her unborn child will be safe. The case of Shamima Begum will be seen as part of a wider dilemma for Western governments about what to do with people who want to return now that ISIS' control of swaths of Iraq and Syria has all but dissolved. Begum, 19, was one of three British schoolgirls who abandoned their lives in east London almost overnight in 2015, traveling to join ISIS and each marrying a group militant. Her fate was largely unknown until Thursday when the British newspaper The Times tracked her down in a refugee camp. She said she wanted to come home but said she wasn't sorry.
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