Wenzel disappeared from her home near Dresden last year and is believed to have been fighting for Islamic State in IraqA German girl who was believed to have been fighting for Islamic State in Mosul when she was arrested last week is the missing 16-year-old Linda Wenzel, German authorities have confirmed. Wenzel, whom German authorities named only as Linda W, is receiving consular assistance from the German embassy in Iraq. Lorenz Haase, a prosecutor in Dresden, would not confirm reports that the teenager had been fighting for Isis. Der Spiegel reported on Saturday that another four German women who joined Isis in recent years were being held in an Iraqi prison and had been visited by diplomats. Der Spiegel said one of the Germans had Moroccan roots and another apparently came from Chechnya but had a German passport.

Source: The Guardian July 22, 2017 12:10 UTC