(NL Times) Ilham B. was picked up in Syria on Friday by a Dutch delegation who will transfer her to the Netherlands. B. went to Syria in 2013 when she was 19-years-old to join the terrorist organization ISIS. She was brought back by the Cabinet because there is a pending court case against her in the Netherlands, NOS reported. It is the first time the Netherlands has actively retrieved an adult from a former ISIS territory.
The judge responsible for the case warned last year that he would close the case against B. if the Netherlands did not make an effort to bring her back from Syria. According to the Cabinet, “an exceptional opportunity” presented itself on Friday to transfer the woman and her two children to the Netherlands. A third child was also brought back along with the family. The child had been the victim of an international child abduction, NOS stated.
