Watch: A 15-year-old Swedish Girl Explains Why She Joined ISIS — And Why She Regrets It

Vox
By: Zack Beauchamp

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Marlin Stivani Nivarlain is a 15-year-old Swedish girl. Last year, her boyfriend became obsessed with ISIS, and she followed him to Syria to join the group.

Last week, Kurdish forces stormed an ISIS-held town near Mosul, Iraq, where they found Nivarlain and rescued her…

A December report from The Soufan Group, a consulting firm that studies terrorism, found that social media alone does not motivate most recruits. Rather, most recruitment happens through communities: real-life hotbeds of ISIS support where people meet in person and convince one another to travel to Syria and Iraq.

“While the power of the Islamic State’s social media outreach is undeniable, it appears more often to prepare the ground for persuasion, rather than to force the decision,” the Soufan Group explains…

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Download The Soufan Group’s updated report on Foreign Fighters here.

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