Four years after leaving Germany to live under the Islamic State group, 19-year-old Leonora has fled the jihadists' last bastion in eastern Syria and says it's time to go home.
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Leonora, a 19-year-old German national who fled fighting between Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Islamic State (IS) jihadists in the frontline Syrian village of Baghuz, awaits to be screened and registered by the SDF in the countryside of the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province on January 31, 2019. - US-backed Kurdish-led forces have detained her husband German jihadist Martin Lemke after he fled the last pocket held by the Islamic State group in Syria, according to Leonora and his second wife abina. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP)
2019-02-02 11:18:21
Four years after leaving Germany to live under the Islamic State group, 19-year-old Leonora has fled the jihadists' last bastion in eastern Syria and says it's time to go home.
"I was a little bit naive," she says in English, wearing a long billowing black robe, and a beige headscarf with white spots.
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