An Irish woman who is believed to be a former member of the Irish Defence Forces has been identified in Syria as an alleged Isis member.
An Irish woman who is believed to be a former member of the Defence Forces has been identified in Syria as an alleged Isis member.
Details of the detention of a woman of Irish origin first emerged after a crew working for ITV News visited a camp in northern Syria about 10 days ago. A number of Islamic State foreign fighters, who had travelled from around the world to fight with the group, were living in the camp after they had effectively been defeated on the battlefield.
When asked how the people left behind in Baghouz were doing, she said: “They’re tired. Morale is low, I suppose. It’s like a rollercoaster for the people. Some want to leave, some don’t want to leave.” The camp she was in has been described by sources in Dublin as being both for people displaced as a result of the conflict and for foreign fighters and their families who were effectively under some form of detention there. The Irish woman in the camp falls into that latter category of having been under some form of detention because of alleged Islamic State involvement.
While the woman was in the camp in Syria up until at least a week ago, some reports say she had since been taken into the care or custody of US forces in Syria. The same sources said they believe she had a young child of the age that would suggest she had given birth while in Syria.
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