The Danish government has taken back a female follower of ISIS and her two children from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).

According to a statement by AANES Foreign Affairs Department on Saturday, the woman, who was interned in the Roj camp, and her two children were handed over on Thursday to a diplomatic delegation led by Nikolaj Harris, the Danish special envoy for Syria.

During the official protocol, the two sides exchanged views on the situation in North-East Syria, the AANES declaration for a solution to the Syrian crisis, the economic and humanitarian situation in the region and the conditions of ISIS members and families in Hol and Roj camps.

The Danish delegation thanked the SDF for their selfless fight against ISIS and vowed to provide support to the AANES and present projects to achieve stability in Syria and Iraq.

This is the fourth repatriation mission of ISIS members that Denmark's government has carried out so far. The woman was taken into custody immediately after arriving in her country of origin, as she has a case pending against her for sponsoring terrorism and being in a war zone. Her children are in the custody of the Danish authorities.

For the first time, the government in Copenhagen implemented two repatriation missions in 2019, but only one child was brought back into the country at a time. In 2021, Denmark readmitted three women and 14 children. According to the AANES, there are currently another two women with Danish citizenship and three children in Roj Camp.

ISIS took control of large parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014 and declared a "caliphate" there. The jihadists established a reign of terror with beheadings, stonings and sexual enslavement of women. Devastation and misery were brought upon millions of people in both countries. Tens of thousands of volunteers flocked to ISIS territory from around the world to help build the jihadists' utopia.

After years of international military intervention, whose central force in Syria was the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the jihadists' territorial rule was crushed in 2019. But tens of thousands of militia members remain in detention in north-eastern Syria or Iraq, as most countries of origin refuse to take them back.

According to the Danish secret service (PET), at least 160 people left Denmark for the war zone Syria/Iraq to join the ranks of the so-called ISIS in the "jihad" there. About a third of them were killed in action, while ten mercenaries are in custody either in AANES or in Iraq. The large remainder have returned to Denmark or settled elsewhere.