Berlin wants to bring back the children of German Islamic State fighters

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Diplomats have requested that Baghdad grant exit visas to the captives who fell into government hands after fierce fighting.

Some of the children are babies and toddlers born to German mothers or fathers whose only birth certificates were issued by Isis bureaucrats.

An estimated 1,000 radicals left Germany to fight with Islamic State over the past few years, 20 per cent of them women.

German officials would rather have the infants and women returned so they can be re-educated about their support for radical Islam rather than run the risk of them indoctrinating a new generation.