Swedish teenager gives interview following rescue from Isis

The 16-year-old girl told a Kurdish TV channel that she was looking forward to returning to her home in Borås, east of Gothenburg, and a "happy life" after she was recovered near Mosul last week.

In what appeared to be a partially scripted first interview since being rescued, she did not mention the fate of the son she reportedly gave birth to in November.

The girl disappeared from her foster home in May last year when she was 15, travelling with her 19-year-old boyfriend who went on to fight for Isis.

She said she agreed to travel to Syria with her boyfriend despite knowing nothing about Islam or Isis.

"First we were good but then he started to look at Isis videos and speak about them and stuff like that," she said in the brief interview. She added: "He said he wanted to go to Isis and I said 'OK, no problem', because I didn't know what Isis means, what Islam is - nothing."

After making their way across Europe by bus, train and hitchhiking, the couple entered Syria near the south-eastern Turkish border town of Gaziantep.

From there, Isis militants ferried them by bus with other men and women to the city of Mosul in neighbouring Iraq and provided them with a house. She said: "In the house we didn't have anything, no electricity, no water, nothing. It was totally different. In Sweden we have everything and when I was there [in Mosul] we didn't have anything."

But the girl believed a phone call home led to her rescue.

"When I had a phone I started to contact my mum and I said 'I want to go home'." The teenager added: "She contacted the Swedish authorities and the Swedish authorities contacted ..." at which point she broke off, saying she could not read an apparently scripted answer.

Security services estimate that hundreds of western men and women have left home to join Isis since the group overran large parts of Iraq and Syria in June 2014.

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