MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is probing if three American teenage girls were attempting to join the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in Syria, CBS News reported Wednesday.
According to the news agency, the FBI said it is investigating the possibility that the girls from the Denver area tracked down in Frankfurt, Germany tried to travel to Syria to join the militants.
A law enforcement official told ABC News that the teenagers planned "to fulfill what they believe is some vision that has been put out on a slick media campaign" by Jihadists groups in Syria.
The FBI confirmed the incident on Tuesday.
"FBI Denver Division is aware of the situation and assisted with bringing the individuals back to Denver," Suzie Payne, a spokeswoman for the FBI, said. "The juveniles are safe and reunited with their families."
A US official told The Associated Press that the girls headed toward Turkey en route to Syria and that investigators are reviewing evidence, including the girls' computers.
The three girls, all under the age of 18, were reported missing last week. They vanished from their homes and traveled from Colorado to Chicago, and then Frankfurt. Two of the girls are of Somali descent and one is of Sudanese descent.
The IS jihadist group, which is also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has fought the Syrian government since 2012. It extended attacks to north and west Iraq in June and declared the creation of an Islamic caliphate.
