German runaway girl who converted to Islam found in Iraq says news A German girl who ran away from home shortly after converting to Islam has been found in Iraq, prosecutors said Saturday.
The 16-year-old girl, identified only as Linda W in line with German privacy laws, is getting consular assistance from the German Embassy in Iraq, said prosecutor Lorenz Haase from the eastern German city of Dresden.
Haase wouldn't confirm media reports that the teenager from Pulsnitz in eastern Germany had been fighting for the Islamic State (IS) group in Mosul.
“Our information ends with the girl's arrival in Istanbul about a year ago,” he told The Associated Press (AP), adding that further details about her whereabouts in the last year were part of an investigation.
Several female foreign IS fighters were detained by Iraq's military in Mosul recently, but Haase couldn't confirm that the German girl was part of that group.
Photos of a dishevelled young woman in the presence of Iraqi soldiers went viral online last week, but there were contradicting reports about the girl's identity. Some said it was Linda W, while others identified her as either a Chechen IS fighter or a Yazidi girl.
In a different case, a French woman captured earlier this month in Mosul with her four children is facing possible prosecution in Iraq for allegedly collaborating with IS, in a test case for how governments handle the families of foreign fighters now that the extremists are in retreat.
The woman, believed to be in her thirties, was arrested on July 9 along with her two sons and two daughters in a basement in Mosul's Old City, according to the Iraqi intelligence officials.
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