Teen Islamist “Poster Girl” Who Fled Austria to Join ISIS Has Been Killed

In April 2014, 17-year-old Samra Kesinovic and friend, 16-year-old Sabina Selimovic became “poster girls” for ISIS when they publicly fled from Austria claiming that they wanted to fight in Syria. The girls, whose parents are Bosnian Refugees, reportedly left Austria to marry ISIS terrorists. In December 2014, a UN official confirmed that one girl, thought to be Sabina, was killed in conflict in Syria. Now news agencies are reporting that Samra has been killed trying to flee Raqqa. The report in the Kronen Zeitung quotes a Tunisian woman who also travelled to Syria to join the jihadists last year but later escaped and returned home. She told the newspaper that she lived with Samra and Sabina in Raqqa. These photos were circulated on social media "We cannot comment on individual cases," Foreign Ministry spokesman Thomas Schnöll told the Austria Press Agency. Interior Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundböck also said that he could not comment on the matter. Previously photos of the two were circulated to recruit young girls to ISIS. The photos appeared on social networking sites, showing the girls holding Kalashnikov rifles and surrounded by armed men.