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Four British children held trying to join ISIS in Syria: Two-year-old seized with 5 adults on the border with Turkey
Arrested: Nine British nationals, three men, two women and four children, have been arrested trying to enter Syria illegally, and are now in the custody of Turkish officials (file picture)
- Brits arrested on Turkey-Syria border and are now in custody
- Nine people tried to enter Syria illegally, according to local media
- The arrested Brits are three men, two women and four children
Nine Britons – four of them children – were seized by Turkish security forces last night as they tried to slip across the border to an Islamic State stronghold in Syria.
The jihadists were caught as they made the final leg of their journey.
The three men, two women and four children were detained by soldiers at a checkpoint in Ogulpinar.
It is believed the youngest of the four children is two and the eldest is 11.
Turkey is a key staging ground for foreign fighters attempting to reach IS-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq. Over the past three months more than a dozen Britons, including three teenage schoolgirls, have made the journey.
The arrests came as Scotland Yard revealed counter terrorism officers detained a 19-year-old at Luton Airport on Tuesday as he returned from Istanbul. Yahya Rashid is suspected of acting as an Islamic State smuggler, paying for four men and a woman to join the terrorist group in Syria.
He is accused of accompanying the group as they travelled to Morocco and then on to Turkey in November.
hey are believed to have slipped across the border into Syria before Rashid flew home. He was remanded in custody by Westminster magistrates yesterday to appear at the Old Bailey accused of preparing to commit an act of terror and assisting others in preparing to commit acts of terror.
