Jihadi 'Poster Girls' Want to Return Home

Two teenaged Austrian girls, who had traveled to Syria to become "jihadi brides", have reportedly grown disillusioned by life with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and have told their families that they are desperate to return home.

The two teenagers had become poster girls for the jihadists group when they first arrived in the Middle East via Turkey. Pictures and messages were posted on the social media to depict how much fun the girls were having.

Samra Kesinovic, 17, and her 15-year-old friend Sabina Selimovic had been persuaded to travel to Syria in April, The Mirror reports.

According to The Independent, even though the girls had left a note asking their parents not to "look for us. We will serve Allah - and we will die for him," Interpol became involved.

The girls were in touch with their families and said time and again of late that they wanted to return, Austrian newspaper Oesterreich reports. An official with the home office told the paper that escaping ISIS in Syria "after such a long time" would be extremely dangerous and difficult.

The New York Post states the teens are married, pregnant and living in the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa in northern Syria, Central European News reports.

Before leaving home, the girls - whose parents are Bosnian migrants - had begun expressing their Islamic beliefs in front of schoolmates in Vienna. They had strong sentiments about the situation in Syria and went on to justify the position of the ISIS to those of opposing beliefs.  

Around 130 people from Austria are now believed to be fighting as jihadists abroad.