KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian woman is believed to be among at least 16 women detained by the Kurdish forces in Syria.
An official from an NGO championing human rights revealed that the women, some accompanied by their children, were among those linked to the Islamic State militant group.
According to a report in the German newspaper, Die Welt, early this month, some 800 foreign women who joined the IS militant group with their children had been detained by US-backed Kurdish forces in northern Syria.
It attributed the information to Human Rights Watch’s terrorism and counterterrorism programme director, Nadim Houry who visited the detainees before revealing that there were at least 15 Indonesians families and one Malaysian.
“I did not see the Malaysians, but I am told there is one family.
“Most families have kids, so while I have no specifics about these families, my suspicion would be yes, they have kids" she was quoted as saying by the foreign press.
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