«Breaking News» Shamima Begum's ISIS husband says the couple should be allowed to go and live in the Netherlands

The Dutch husband of Shamima Begum wants to bring her and their newborn child to live with him in The Netherlands. 

Yago Riedijk, 27, joined ISIS when he was 15, and admits fighting for them, but despite being on a terrorist watch list in his native country he has not had his citizenship revoked. 

Mr Riedijk is being held in a Kurdish detention centre in north-eastern Syria and faces six years behind bars if he returns home but in an interview with the BBC he claimed he rejected IS and tried to leave. 

Mr Riedijk is being held in a Kurdish detention centre, pictured here speaking to the BBC

Shamima Begum pictured with Jarrah in Al Hawl camp in Syria for captured ISIS wives

He married Ms Begum just 10 days after meeting her in IS territory and has also come out and defended the decision to do so despite her being just 15 at the time, and him 23.  

Riedijk, from Arnhem, said he was initially uninterested by the prospect of marriage with the East London schoolgirl whom he met in a women's centre but decided to marry her because it was 'her choice'. 

He said: 'To be honest, when my friend came and said there was a girl who was interested in marriage, I wasn't that interested because of her age, but I accepted the offer anyway.'

Shamima Begum whilst living in the UK. She now wants to return but has had her citizenship revoked - her family has pleaded with Home Secretary Sajid Javid to let her return 

Ms Begum on ITV1 lunchtime news revealing the face of baby Jarrah to the cameras

He told a BBC reporter that he wants to return to Holland with his bride and their newborn son

He added that she had seemed to be 'in a good state of mind'.

He conceded 'she was very young, maybe it would have been better for her to wait a bit', before adding: 'But she didn't, she chose to get married and I chose to marry her.'

Local media in Arnhem said he was raised in a 'lovely' middle class family before converting to Islam and leaving for Syria in October 2014 to join ISIS.

Ms Begum is currently in limbo with the UK revoking her citizenship on the grounds that she is eligible for citizenship of Bangladesh through her mother, who is a Bangladeshi citizen. 

However, Bangladesh's ministry of foreign affairs has said that she isn't a Bangladeshi citizen and that she will not be allowed into the country. 

Ms Begum's family last month told the Home Secretary they were going to challenge his decision to revoke her UK citizenship. 

Facebook picture of Dutch ISIS fighter Yago Riedijk pictured with his mother Ankie Winkelman

Thick black smoke rose over the Syrian village of Baghouz, where Begum and Riedijk escaped from, as Western-backed forces closed in on Islamic State fighters this week

The IS fighter also told the BBC's Quentin Sommerville that he was imprisoned in Raqqa and tortured after the extremists accused him of being a Dutch spy.

Ms Begum is now 19. As the IS caliphate crumbled she escaped the stronghold of Baghouz in Syria with her husband, she claims that she hasn't seen him since then. 

He reportedly surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters and his wife and new-born son ended up among 39,000 people in the al-Hawl refugee camp - it is said she has now been moved on from the camp. 

Ms Begum and Riedijk have had three children together, two of which have died due to illness and malnutrition - a fact that has led Begum and her family to plead with UK authorities to let new-born Jarrah be raised in Britain for his own well-being. 

Facebook picture believed to be of Dutch ISIS fighter Yago Riedijk, now 27 and detained 

The news comes as the town the pair fled from was yesterday the scene of a western-backed assault on ISIS fighters.   

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) began the assault in Baghouz on Friday night after a pause in fighting to allow thousands of civilians to flee.

Fighters were backed by helicopters and drones as they closed in on the terror group’s last bastion close to the Iraq border.

Desperate IS fighters, many of them foreigners, used booby- traps in a last-ditch attempt to stop the crushing of their self-declared caliphate.

Yazidi children fleeing the last stronghold of Islamic State as coalition forces advance and attack

Mustafa Bali, an SDF spokesman, tweeted yesterday morning that heavy clashes were taking place as its forces advanced. ‘We expect it to be over soon,’ he said.

One SDF commander told The Mail on Sunday there were about 300 IS fighters – including some of its most hardened – still in the besieged area on the banks of the Euphrates river.

The fall of IS has been expected for weeks, but jihadis slowed the assault by using their network of tunnels and forcing civilians to become human shields. 

Local sources claimed Western special forces were using rapid-hardening foam to trap those hiding in caves and tunnels.

Many of the jihadis’ tents appeared flattened and destroyed. Those escaping the enclave said food and medical supplies had dwindled, with some relying on a diet of ‘IS bread’ – leaves baked with animal feed.

Others said they had to eat animal droppings and sticks to survive.

Fighters captured over recent days include jihadis from France, Spain, Egypt, Kyrgyzstan and Tunisia.

Twelve British jihadi brides and 20 children held in camp 

At least 12 British female jihadis with 20 children between them are being held at Roj camp in northern Syria, according to UK sources.

They include Reema Iqbal, an East London mother-of-two who spent four years living under IS and married a man who bragged of slaughtering ‘infidels’ like sheep. She went to Syria with her two university-educated sisters.

Others there include a middle-class recruit in her 40s whose husband was killed just two weeks after they arrived, and a woman who lawyers believe was trafficked into the so-called caliphate from Turkey by her Irish-born husband. 

They were joined last week by Shamima Begum, the 19-year-old former East London schoolgirl, who was moved from the al-Hol camp with her week-old son Jerah and other foreign jihadi brides.

Kurdish security sources denied claims from Begum’s lawyer that this was due to safety fears after reports that IS hardliners at al-Hol, angered by her high profile and uncovered face in interviews with the media, had put a bounty on her head.

Officials insisted that Begum was moved to make space for a surge in IS fighters and their families pouring into al-Hol from the terror group’s last holdout in Baghouz.

 

 

 

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Main photo article The Dutch husband of Shamima Begum wants to bring her and their newborn child to live with him in The Netherlands. 
Yago Riedijk, 27, joined ISIS when he was 15, and admits fighting for them, but despite being on a terrorist watch list in his native country he has not had his citizenship ...

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