Kurdish
special forces came to the aid of the girl, named Marlin Stivani
Nivarlain, near the ISIS-held city of Mosul on Wednesday, said a
statement by the Kurdistan Region Security Council.
The statement did not say how long ISIS had held the girl.
The teen is from Boras, about 405 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of Stockholm, the Swedish capital.
According
to the statement from Kurdish authorities, Nivarlain "was misled by an
ISIL member in Sweden to travel to Syria and later to Mosul." ISIL is
another acronym for ISIS.
Members of her family, along with Swedish authorities, asked for Kurdish help in rescuing her, the statement said.
"She
is currently in the Kurdistan Region and is provided the care afforded
to her under international law," the statement said. "She will be
transferred to Swedish authorities to return home once necessary
arrangements are put (in) place."
The
Kurds are a Middle Eastern ethnic group that inhabits primarily an area
that encompasses parts of Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria. Some members of
the group have long sought to establish a Kurdish state in the region --
a step opposed by those countries that would lose territory to such a
state.
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