I am just hoping.”Four years ago, his wife fled their Florida home to join the Islamic State and took their two children with her. She was killed in an airstrike, but the children are believed to be in Baghuz, the last village held by the Islamic State in Syria. But Shikder’s ordeal raises the question of what happens to children who ended up in the Islamic State through no fault of their own. He married a Bangladeshi-born American woman, Rashida Sumaiya, and had two children, Yusuf, a boy, and Zahra, a girl. That was the start of an intermittent and painful correspondence between him, his wife, her sister and other members of the Islamic State.

Source: bd News24 March 05, 2019 08:48 UTC