"We can confirm that three German children who were being held in northern Syria were able to travel to Iraq with their mother today. To our knowledge, all of them will travel on to Germany from there," a foreign ministry source told AFP. READ ALSO:According to the magazine, German authorities had been investigating the suspect since 2016 on suspicion of belonging to a terror organisation and neglect of her children. H. is believed to have travelled to Syria from Giessen in western Germany in March 2016, and to have joined IS that summer. She and her children have reportedly been held in the notoriously overcrowded Al Hol camp in northern Syria since December 2018.

Source: The Local November 23, 2019 07:52 UTC