Special Forces Rescue Swedish Teen From IS

A 16-year-old Swedish girl was rescued by counterterrorism forces from ISIS captivity in Iraq, Kurdish officials said Tuesday, NBC News reported.

The KRSC statement, which named the girl and included a photograph of her, said it had been called upon by Swedish authorities and members of her family to assist in locating and rescuing her from IS, which has controlled Mosul since 2014.

She will be returned home once necessary arrangements are in place, said the security council.

Britain and the West must brace for reprisal terror attacks by Isil after a string of battlefield defeats in Iraq and Syria, say military commanders.

Iraqi Kurdish officials contacted in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq, declined to provide more details on the case.

The girl told her family that she was married in an Islamic ceremony to her boyfriend and they had joined the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria.

“I didn’t know what ISIS means, or Islam”, she said, using an alternative acronym for the IS group.

Earlier this month, a mother who took her 14-month-old son to Syria to join Islamic State fighters was jailed for six years by a British court.

Miss Nivarlain first fled her home town of Borås, in eastern Sweden, last year.

She will presumably return to Sweden.

But he admitted the militants had so far been able to recruit fighters as fast as they had been killed and said the coalition is “not going to kill our way out” of the crisis.

Mosul remains under control of IS as Iraqi forces – aided by air strikes by the US-led global coalition, as well as Shiite militiamen and Sunni pro-government fighters – battle to reclaim ground lost to the militants.