Teenage Austrian poster girls for ISIS who moved to Syria to live with jihadis are now want come home

 Left is Samra Kesinovic, 16, who is thought to have fled to Syria to join the Islamic State. On the right is 15-year-old Sabina Selimovic who went with her - the two are believed to now want to return home

Two Austrian teenage girls who became ‘poster girls’ for jihad in Syria are now desperate to come home after getting completely disillusioned with their new lifestyles.

Samra Kesinovic, 17, and her friend Sabina Selimovic, 15, who grew up in the Austrian capital Vienna, were persuaded to head to Syria and take part in the holy war in April.

The girls had started lecturing schoolmates about their lifestyle and when they left Vienna in April they left behind a note telling their parents: 'Don’t look for us. We will serve Allah – and we will die for him'.

Once they arrived it is believed they were married off to local fighters and both the girls are thought to be pregnant.

 

Police in their homeland Austria say that the girls' social media accounts were taken over and manipulated to broadcast what they now think were fake messages about the life they were having, and using them as poster girls to encourage other young girls to head to Syria.

But security service insiders have told Austrian media that the girls have managed to contact their families to say they have had enough, and want to come home.

However they warn that there is almost now no chance that they will be able to leave their new lives after they became internationally famous and the images were shared all round the world.

Austrian newspaper Oesterreich, which revealed that the girls now wanted to come home, is known to have close connections to those investigating the disappearance of the two girls and is in close contact with their families.

Both sets of parents had been trying to find ways to contact their daughters and it is believed some way of communicating had been established.

The paper said that the girls are currently in the Islamic State controlled city of Rakka in northern Syria, had been married to Chechen fighters upon their arrival in Syria and were both pregnant.

Spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Karl-Heinz Grundboeck, said however that decision may be too late.

He said: 'The main problem is about people coming back to Austria. Once they leave it is almost impossible.'

The news comes despite reports which surfaced last month that one of the girls may have been killed.