(Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP) (Associated Press)WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand man who joined the Islamic State group has been captured in Syria and told journalists he regrets not being able to afford a slave and expects to return home. Known by the Twitter handle “Kiwi Jihadi,” Taylor notoriously forgot to turn off Twitter’s geotagging function in 2014, alerting outsiders to the location of Islamic State fighters. He said he was jailed three times by Islamic State, including once for 50 days over the geotagging incident. The Islamic State took thousands of Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves, viewing female members of the religious minority as heretics worthy of subjugation and rape. She said New Zealand had plans in place for any Islamic State fighters that might return.

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2019 02:30 UTC