Two Austrian teenage girls who ran away to Syria to join Islamic State fighters are beginning to regret their decision. Security service insiders told Austrian media that the girls have managed to contact families and one wants to go home.

The pair left home to join Islamic State (also known as ISIS, or ISIL) in April. Little information was immediately known, aside from that one had been 16 and one 14 at the time of their departure. Both reportedly married Chechen fighters after their arrival in Syria and became pregnant.

Samra Kesinovic and her friend, Sabina Selimovic, are children of Bosnian migrants, but grew up in Vienna. On their departure from Austria, they left a note, telling their parents: Dont look for us. We will serve Allah and we will die for him.

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Two Austrian teenage girls who ran away to Syria to join Islamic State fighters are beginning to regret their decision. Security service insiders told Austrian media that the girls have managed to contact families and one wants to go home.

The pair left home to join Islamic State (also known as ISIS, or ISIL) in April. Little information was immediately known, aside from that one had been 16 and one 14 at the time of their departure. Both reportedly married Chechen fighters after their arrival in Syria and became pregnant.

Samra Kesinovic and her friend, Sabina Selimovic, are children of Bosnian migrants, but grew up in Vienna. On their departure from Austria, they left a note, telling their parents: Dont look for us. We will serve Allah and we will die for him.

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The stupidity of some people will never cease to amaze me.

Lavish wrote Is there any backstory as to why these girls joined ISIS?

Like honestly.. Who even thinks "Hey. I'm going to go join ISIS."
There has to be some reason behind it.

Did the girls believe in the "cause" that they're fighting for or what?

The two Austrian teenagers who became poster girls for the jihad in Syria are now desperate to come home after becoming disillusioned with their new lifestyles.

Samra Kesinovic, 17, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, who grew up in Vienna and enjoyed the freedom to wear whatever they wanted and to meet whoever they wanted, were told by radical preacher Ebu Tejma at a local mosque about the evils of their lifestyle. Clerics persuaded the girls that the only way to know true peace was to head to Syria and take part in the holy war.

The twohad started lecturing classmates about their lifestyles and were even suspected of a vandalism attack at their school that called for jihad.

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Thousands of Yazidi women sold as sex slaves 'for theological reasons', says Isil

Article in Islamic State's English-language online magazine Dabiq not only admits selling Yazidi women into sex slavery but justifies it according to the theological rulings of early Islam

Islamic State jihadists have given detailed theological reasons justifying why they have taken thousands of women from the Iraqi Yazidi minority and sold them into sex slavery.
A new article in the Islamic State English-language online magazine Dabiq not only admits the practice but justifies it according to the theological rulings of early Islam.
"After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Sharia amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated," the article says.
It says there is a difference between women from Muslim sects the jihadists regard as heretical, who can be considered as "apostates", and the so-called mushrikin - polytheists and pagans.

"Their women could be enslaved, unlike female apostates."
The women were seized when the group swept across parts of northern Iraq in early August.
When the jihadists attacked areas occupied by Yazidis, the West's attention focused on the tens of thousands of refugees who crowded on to the barren hills of nearby Mount Sinjar, before they were rescued by Kurdish fighters.
But thousands more were surrounded and captured in nearby towns and villages.
The article does not specify that they are to be used as sex slaves, but later on equates them with "concubines".

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Britain will send armed Reaper drones to Iraq to fight Islamic State (IS formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants and support British Tornado jets already striking jihadi vehicles and positions.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon told MPs in a written statement on Thursday that Reapers were being re-deployed from Afghanistan.

The drones would primarily serve an intelligence gathering function in northern Iraq, but will also carry Hellfire missiles and GBU-12 500lb laser-guided bombs to strike against IS targets.