Story highlights Girl was "misled" into traveling first to Syria and later to Mosul, Iraq, Kurds say

Family and Swedish authorities asked regional Kurdish officials for help, statement says

(CNN) Kurdish forces have rescued a 16-year-old Swedish girl from ISIS in northern Iraq, according to regional Kurdish authorities.

Kurdish special forces came to the aid of the girl, named Marlin Stivani Nivarlain, near the ISIS-held city of Mosul on Wednesday, said a statement by the Kurdistan Region Security Council.

The statement did not say how long ISIS had held the girl.

The teen is from Boras, about 405 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of Stockholm, the Swedish capital.

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