At 9, He Was Taken by ISIS—Now He’s Warning Australia About the Returned ‘Brides’

‘We are importing terrorists. Being a woman doesn’t make you innocent,’ says Sameer Dakhil Alazeez.

Sameer Dakhil Alazeez, once kidnapped by ISIS, now proudly calls Australia home. Courtesy of Sameer Dakhil Alazeez

Sameer Dakhil Alazeez was just nine years old when he was kidnapped by the ISIS terrorist group—ripped away from his family and farming community in Iraq.

It was not his first encounter with terrorism. Two years earlier, Alazeez survived a car bombing that left his legs so badly burned he was unable to walk for a year.