(National-UAE) Around 40 Norwegian children were born or taken to live inside ISIS’ so-called “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq, security services said.
Roughly 30 Norwegian men and women remain in Syria, another 30 have died and 40 have escaped according to officials. Only a handful of these have returned to Norway, Martin Bernsen, senior advisor to the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), told Dagbladet. The fate of the 40 children, almost all who were born in ISIS territory, is unclear, Mr Bernsen added.
Very few of the 30 still-active “foreign warriors” in the Levant region are expected to make it back to Norway. However, of those that are alive, some remain in contact with family members in Norway via social media. The primary threat from the 30 “lies in the opportunity they have to encourage” sympathisers to carry out attacks in Norway, a report released by the PST on Monday said.
