Kurdish special forces rescued a 16-year-old Swedish girl from the Islamic State in northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Regional Security Council said in a statement on Tuesday. The teenager was “misled by an IS member in Sweden to travel to Syria and later to Mosul”, which is 360 km northwest of Baghdad. The girl hails from Boras, which is around 405 km southwest of Swedish capital Stockholm. Members of her family and Swedish authorities had approached Kurdish authorities to locate and rescue her from the terror outfit.

According to the statement, the girl is in Kurdistan territory at present and is being “provided with the care afforded to her under international law”. The teenager will be transferred to Swedish authorities to return home once necessary arrangements made. In an interview with local television station K24, she described her ordeal. She recalled how she stopped going to school at the age of 14 when she met her boyfriend, who convinced her to go to Syria. However, she did not share details about her boyfriend or what happened to him, Associated Press reported.