(Euractiv) Danish authorities have started planning the evacuation of five Danish children of ISIS fighters in the Kurdish-controlled al-Roj camp in Syria but their mothers will be left behind, Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said.
The decision comes after a new medical report pointed to several malnourished children, with one four-year-old boy diagnosed with PTSD and ADHD requiring hospital attention.
The report has prompted the Socialist People’s Party and the Radical Left to pressure the government to bring the children to Denmark, who also called for the mothers to join their children.
But due to the mothers’ involvement with the Islamic State, the ruling Social Democrats have decided to block them from returning.
