British Police: Missing Schoolgirls Believed to Be in Syria

Three British schoolgirls thought to be trying to join the Islamic State group are believed to have crossed from Turkey into Syria, British police said Tuesday. The teens -- Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase and Shamima Begum, both 15 -- disappeared from their homes a week ago, flying from London to Istanbul. Their families issued desperate public pleas for them to return. "We miss you. We cannot stop crying,'' said Abase Hussen, Amira's father, on British TV,...

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