(Local) The seven young children of dead Isis fighter Michael Skråmo have been taken from a Syrian refugee camp to Swedish authorities in Iraq, from where they will be brought home to Sweden.
The children, aged between one and eight, were left orphaned and alone after their father was killed in battle in the Syrian town of Baghouz in late March. Their mother was also killed in early 2019.
Their grandfather had been fighting to return the children to Sweden since their parents’ death, and the Swedish foreign ministry had been in talks with the Kurdish-controlled al-Hol refugee camp.
On Tuesday the Sweden representative for Kurdish authorities in northern Syria told media that the children had been handed over to Swedish authorities after “all the paperwork had been completed.”
