Abu Bakr is 5 and his sister Samira is 9. They’re from Dagestan, a Russian republic in the Caucasus Mountains. Four years ago, their parents their children and went to Iraq to join ISIS. Their father was killed in an airstrike and their mother captured in Iraq. Now they’re back home in Dagestan being cared for by their aunt. Marco Werman talks with the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford, who visited with the children.
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