KABUL: (Middle East Press) A Dutch mother has abducted two of her four children and taken them in Syria to join the ISIL terrorist organization.
The unnamed 32-year-old Chechen national had been living in Maastricht in the southern Netherlands before taking her young son and daughter to ISIS capital Raqqa.
The missing woman, left Netherlands with two of her children last October, the Dutch prosecution’s office confirmed this morning.
The father of the missing children named the pair as Luca, seven, and his sister Aysha, eight, and said they had been taken without his consent.
The woman’s two other children are believed to have been handed over to a relative before she left to join the terror group.
According to the Dutch newspaper, the children’s father had previously reported his estranged wife to the police because he was concerned she was planning to travel to Syria.
Officers are said to have questioned the woman several times but she denied having intentions to join ISIS and investigators could find no evidence of real travel plans.
Shortly afterwards the woman vanished from Maastricht with two of the children, prompting Dutch officials to launch a major alert, leading to an international arrest warrant being issued.
