Sweden: Police arrest women for links to the "Islamic State"

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Flag of the militia "Islamic State" in Syria (archive image)

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The Swedish police arrested two women with ties to the Islamic State (IS) jihadist militia.

As a police spokesman for the AFP news agency said on Monday, the two women had returned to Sweden from Syria and were arrested after their plane landed in Stockholm.

A third woman was taken to interrogate her.

The public television broadcaster SVT reported that at least one of the women arrested was being investigated for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.

Accordingly, the women lived in camps in northern Syria before their return home.

According to SVT, Kurdish authorities deported them after deciding that they did not have enough evidence to prosecute them.

The Swedish public prosecutor did not want to comment specifically on the cases.

One statement only said that there were several investigations against men and women returning from areas controlled by ISIS.

According to public prosecutor Reena Devgun, the allegations that are “relevant” to returnees from IS areas are “war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity”.

Most recently, IS was responsible for the terror in Kabul

The Islamic State militia is active in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, among others, and is repeatedly blamed for atrocities.

Most recently, the jihadists from the "Islamic State-Khorasan", or IS-K for short, claimed responsibility for the bomb attack in Kabul, in which more than 170 people were killed.

IS-K was founded in January 2015 as a regional branch of the terrorist militia "Islamic State".

He had proclaimed his caliphate in Syria and Iraq six months earlier and was there at the zenith of his power.

The IS leadership officially recognized IS-K as an offshoot.

Over the years she is said to have supported him with money.

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