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🗓️ 28 March 2019

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Now that ISIS has lost its territory, what happens to all the people from around the world who ran off to join it? Their governments don't want them. But their families do. We follow them as they try to get their loved ones out.

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0:00.0	Let's say you or someone you love made a mistake.
0:04.0	A huge one.
0:06.0	Right off to Syria, maybe with a boyfriend or a husband.
0:10.0	Maybe a loan to help people or live a pure version of Islam.
0:15.0	Or to fight.
0:18.0	Whatever the reason the goal was to live with ISIS,
0:21.0	the most notorious terrorist group in the world.
0:24.0	Problem is, now ISIS has reportedly been defeated.
0:28.0	Many of the hardcore fighters are dead or captured or fading back into society.
0:33.0	But many of the people who went to join them have been left behind in camps and prisons.
0:40.0	So, what should their governments do with them?
0:43.0	I'm sorry, she's not my responsibility.
0:45.0	She chose to take herself out there.
0:48.0	So why do we need her back over here?
0:50.0	She should stay in Syria and rot.
0:53.0	On the new season of Embedded, we are spending time with the people ISIS left behind.
0:58.0	The governments don't want them, but their families do.
1:02.0	We found a woman who came all the way from Austria and forced her way into Syria to bring back her daughter.
1:08.0	Did you also think this woman is crazy?
1:11.0	She is very crazy.
1:14.0	Absolutely.
1:15.0	And to meet her new grandson.
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