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Kosovian Boy Returned from War in Syria after 5 Months
- Published_at:2014-10-16
- Category:Education
- Channel:Middle East News
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- description: Erion Zena and his mother Pranvera Zena... An eight-year-old boy from Kosovo was reunited with his mother late on Wednesday after intelligence and security forces brought him back from Syria where he was taken by his “jihadi” father and kept for five months, officials said. Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said in a statement that Kosovo's Intelligence Agency "successfully located, found and returned" Erion Zena to Kosovo. He said the operation was "complicated and dangerous," but didn't give any further details. It was authorised by Thaci and the country's President, Atifete Jahjaga. An Associated Press reporter witnessed the boy being ushered into a waiting room at Pristina's international airport by two men in civilian clothes where his mother Pranvera Zena waited. "It feels like a dream," Pranvera Zena told the AP minutes after the reunion."It feels as if I am waking up and I fear he is still not there." The boy appeared confused as his mother approached him and hugged him.He then sat on her lap and showed her his toy soldiers and a toy tank, as she caressed him and tried to hold back her tears. 8 year-old Erion Zena and an unidentified man holding up one finger in the ISIS salute. Screenshot from Kosovo TV The boy was taken to Syria in June 2014 by his father Arben Zena against his mother's will. The case received widespread attention in Kosovo after the boy's mother made a public appeal to her husband to return their son. A Facebook page was also opened in support of Pranvera Zena and she made appearances in Kosovo and Albania from where a growing number of youths have joined extremists in Iraq and Syria. Hundreds of Kosovo Albanians have joined the ranks of ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq in recent years. Kosovo's population of some 1.8 million is overwhelmingly Muslim. kurdish rocket attack, peshmerga rocket attack, peshmerga kurdish soldiers, Syria Kurds VS jihadists, the battle for Kobani rages on, YPG IŞİD Kobane de Sokak Çatışması İslamic State Attack Kobane, kurdish vs isis, us attack ısıs kobane, france attack ısıs kobane, ısıs kobane ypg attack, ısıs kurdish battle, ısıs kobane, ısıs syria, ısıs ıraq, ışid, us airstrikes on isis us air Strikes on isis us airstrike isis us bombs isis us attack isis us air Strikes on isis us airstrikes on isis us airstrikes syria isis video pentangon us airstrikes on isis syria video US Air strike Syria pentagon attack video US Airstrikes on ISIS US Airstrikes ISIS Syria Pentagon Reveals ISIL Targets Pentagon Reveals ISIS Targets US Airstrikes ISIS Syria video US Airs strikes ISIS Syria us strikes syria us strikes isis video الضربات الجوية الامريكية ضد ISIS في سوريا US Airstrikes ISIS in Syria
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