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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on April 20, 2018, 05:22:48 am
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Russia Works To Rescue The Lost Children Of ISIS Fighters
Samantha Raphelson Twitter
Thousands of Russian Muslim men joined the Islamic State and brought their families with them to Iraq and Syria. But now that ISIS has lost most of its territory – and with many of those Russian fighters now dead – the Russian government is desperately searching for their lost wives and children.
Hundreds if not thousands of children born or brought to the region by their families are missing or being held prisoner along with their mothers. Those who have been rescued face challenges reintegrating into Russian life, officials say.
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It's almost as if these Russian women and children in the Middle East have fallen into a black hole, says Tim Whewell of the BBC. He says the only names known were discovered in December when voice messages were smuggled out of an Iraqi prison.
Read more at: https://www.npr.org/2018/04/19/603952883/russia-works-to-rescue-the-lost-children-of-isis-fighters (https://www.npr.org/2018/04/19/603952883/russia-works-to-rescue-the-lost-children-of-isis-fighters)