Norway’s security and intelligence agency, PST, has announced the arrest of two Somali sisters who returned from Syria early Wednesday, along with their children.
The Norwegian authorities charged the sisters with being members of the ISIS organization.
Norway has announced that it is repatriating two sisters, Ayaan and Leila Juma, and their three children from a Syrian refugee camp, citing the poor conditions in the facility.
The Norwegian Somali sisters left Norway as teenagers in 2013 to join the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
They are now 29 and 25 years old, and these women have three daughters, who are fathered by Daesh fighters, according to the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang.
The children are reported to be six, seven, and eight years old.
Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt said, “The living conditions in the camps are very bad and dangerous. These children have been living in these camps for a long time and children should not be living there.” Huitfeldt added that the sisters asked for help to return to Norway with their children, knowing they would face arrest upon arrival.
The Kurds in control of the Al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria announced on Tuesday that the sisters were handed over to a Norwegian diplomat.
The plane was scheduled to land at Gardermoen Airport in Oslo at 12:40 a.m. on Wednesday.
Norwegian security forces arrested the two women when they arrived.
The case is similar to others involving young Europeans who have traveled to Syria, including Shamima Begum, a British citizen who was stripped of her citizenship after joining ISIS as a teenager.
