Denmark brings home Islamic State women and their children from Syria

Three Danish women and 14 children have landed in Denmark after leaving a Kurdish-controlled prison camp in Syria. The women are accused of having joined ISIS.

The 17 people arrived on Danish soil on Thursday, lawyers for the women told Danish TV2 and DR. The women and children left the al-Roj camp in northern Syria early Wednesday morning.

They were on a plane that landed in Frankfurt, Germany, just after midnight. The three Danish women and their 14 children landed at Karup airport in Central Jutland later on Thursday night, the newspaper Ekstra Bladet writes.

The three women traveled to Syria in 2014, where they joined the extremist terrorist group ISIS.

One of the women has dual citizenship, while the other two are ethnic Danes. Nine of the 14 children were born in Denmark and traveled with their mothers to Syria. The five youngest children were born in Syria, DR reports.

Work is now underway to bring home another five children with Danish connections from prison camps in Syria, the news agency Ritzau reports. However, that requires the consent of the children’s three mothers, who have been deprived of their citizenship and whom the Danish government does not want to take home. The five children and their mothers are therefore still in prison camps.

One month ago, three Swedish women and their eight children traveled from Syria to Sweden. Two of the three women were arrested shortly after by the police. Today, one of them is in custody while the other has been released.

Source: Norway Today