(National-UAE) Denmark will not allow the return of about 30 children whose parents travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight for ISIS, the country’s prime minister said.
Mette Frederiksen, the leader of the left-wing coalition government, said allowing children into Denmark would open the door to their parents.
The UN estimates there are about 30,000 children of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq. Two-thirds of them are Iraqi children in Syria.
“The challenge is that we cannot separate the children from their mothers,” Ms Frederiksen told the Danish news agency Ritzau.
There were no known cases where children of Danish foreign fighters had been allowed to return to the country.
