The ISIS orphans waiting to come home
Paris (CNN)At 5 a.m. on a September morning in 2014, 14-year-old Soraya picked up a large suitcase and left her family home in the suburbs of Lyon, France. The sound of her closing the door as she left woke her older sister who promptly ran to warn her mother, Nadia. Nadia flung open the window and yelled at Soraya to come back. The girl paused for a few seconds, looked up and then walked on, past the parking lot and out of sight.
Nadia called the police to tell them her daughter had run away. A few hours later, while speaking to one of Soraya’s friends, she heard the real reason for her daughter’s sudden departure: Soraya had gone to Syria to join ISIS.
Nadia still struggles with the idea that her daughter was radicalized online at home. It’s believed that Soraya was helped across several international borders by ISIS before slipping into Syria.
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