THE TWO AUSTRIAN teenagers who ran away to join a group of Islamist militants in Syria have reportedly changed their minds and want to come home.
Both Samra Kesinovic, 17, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, have fallen pregnant after marrying jihadist fighters, according to most recent reports.
Members of the Austrian and British press have reported that the pair want to return home to Austria to get away from the atrocities of war in Syria.
The teenagers had been dubbed the ‘poster girl jihadi brides’ of ISIS and their social media accounts were said to have been appropriated to glamourise their lifestyles.
The girls initially wrote a letter to their parents, telling them not to come looking for them as they were going to “serve Allah”, adding that they would “die for him”.
But the Telegraph reported over the weekend that they have contacted their families, telling them they no longer want to live within the rules of the Islamist extremists.
Austrian officials aren’t sure if the girls can even come back home.
“A return for ISIS-sympathisers in the area is almost impossible. The authorities can do nothing here,” one source told the Austrian newspaper Oesterreich.
Both girls are listed on Interpol’s missing persons’ page. It is thought their views had become radicalised in recent years after reading about jihad on the internet.
It is thought about 130 Austrian nationals have joined ISIS fighters in Turkey and Syria.
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