Now after the militants’ defeat, they say they made a mistake and are pleading to come home. Some women have re-formed units of the militants’ feared religious police, the “Hisba,” and enforce rules and punishments on other residents. Travelling to the caliphate, the women joined a group whose atrocities were well known, including sex enslavement of Yazidi women, mass killings and grotesque punishments of rule-breakers, ranging from public shootings to beheadings and hurling from rooftops. Their pleas to return home point to the question of what to do with the men and women who joined the caliphate. She said she came to blame the bloodshed on the militants she had joined.

Source: Egypt Independent April 23, 2019 08:37 UTC