By AFP – Apr 24,2017 – JORDAN TIMES
Twenty-three-year old Islam Maytat from Morocco poses for a photo with her children Maria (left) and Abdullah in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northern Syria on April 13, after she escaped from the Daesh group territory following three traumatic years living in the group’s so-called ‘caliphate’ (AFP photo)
QAMISHLI, Syria — Islam Maytat thought marrying an Afghan-British businessman was her ticket to a new life as a fashionista in London. Instead she became a widow living under extremist rule in Syria.
At just 23, the young Moroccan spent three traumatic years in northern Syria under the Daesh terror group’s so-called “caliphate”.
Tens of thousands of foreigners have joined extremist groups in Syria, including women who are encouraged to marry and raise the children of Daesh militants.
Some, like Maytat, have been lured unknowingly into marriages with would-be extremists.
Maytat spoke to AFP after fleeing Daesh’s northern stronghold of Raqqa to territory controlled by a US-backed alliance fighting the extremist group.
Now safe in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli, Maytat holds her gurgling 10-month-old daughter Maria in her lap as she tells her story.
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