British women fighting for ISIS have been captured by Kurdish forces

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A mother and her two daughters in their twenties are among a group of Islamic State captives detained by officials in the al-Hawl detention camp, northwestern Syria. There, they have joined another woman from the UK called Zara, from London, who was brainwashed into fighting or the extremist group and as a result, has been held by police for several months. Referring to the Arabic acronym for ISIS, a source told the Daily Telegraph: “They claim, as all the women do, that they were bought here by their husbands and that they have been trying to escape Daesh.” The three women were part of 13 captured by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on suspicion of links to Islamic State.

Among those captured as part of two separate raids on the area of al-Shafaa, eastern Deir Ezzor province, is a 16-year-old American whose name police will not release due to his age. A German, Russian two Uzbeks, a Ukrainian, a Tajik and a Kazakh were also arrested. The news follows reports that hardly any fighters from the region are left and that ISIS is barely staying afloat due to efforts from foreign terrorists.

But without the necessary language skills they have been unable to blend into the civilian population, causing them to flee. Their escape came amid reports that two British special forces soldiers were seriously injured in an attempt to claw back their ever-shrining territory. The two soldiers, who are yet to be named, were airlifted to hospital by a US helicopter.