Probe into claims two Canadians among captured Islamic State women.

Amid the liberation of Mosul - once the de facto
capital of the jihadists' self-declared caliphate - Iraqi
forces are reported to have detained a unit of women
militants, including German, Russian, Turkish and
Canadian citizens.
Jocelyn Sweet, a spokesperson for Canada's foreign
ministry, said: "We are aware of these media reports.
Canadian officials are contacting local authorities and
gathering additional information."
Officials in Germany are already investigating
whether one of the group, found in a tunnel alongside
weapons including suicide belts, is 16-year-old Linda
Wenzel - a radicalised teenager who went missing
from Saxony in July last year .
:: What is happening to the jihadi brides who joined
Islamic State?
It is unclear what will happen to foreign IS recruits
arrested in Iraq. It was initially thought they would be
handed over to their home country's embassies and
not kept in Iraq.
But France has insisted a woman detained in Mosul,
alongside her four children aged from six months to
eight years, should be prosecuted in Iraq rather than
returned to Europe.
A French government spokesman said the mother,
believed to have left her Paris suburb home with her
children in 2015 to follow her husband to Syria then
Iraq, must be tried by Iraqi courts over alleged
collaboration with IS because she wasn't in Mosul
"for tourism".
Her fate is likely to set a precedent for the thousands
of Europeans who headed to join jihadists over the
past few years.
The woman's lawyer has expressed fears she could
face abuse or be used as a pawn by local politicians.
Iraq's prime minister Haider al-Abadi admitted on
Tuesday his country's forces committed human rights
violations during the nine-month campaign to free
Mosul from IS.
Videos on social media have shown Iraqi soldiers
throwing captured IS suspects off a high wall before
shooting their bodies below.
One of the women is reported to be 16-year-old
German Linda Wenzel
Mr al-Abadi said: "Any violation against the law or
any violation against a person's dignity is not
acceptable and we will chase them (perpetrators)
down. These are individual acts and not widespread
and we will not tolerate such acts."
Hundreds of suspected IS militants captured in Mosul
are being held in a cramped prison just outside the
city.
Amid summer temperatures above 45C (110F), those
captured are reported to have been detained in dark
crowded rooms with no electricity or ventilation.
An Iraqi officer said: "Prisoners are infected with
diseases, lots of health and skin problems, because
they're not exposed to the sun. The majority can't
walk. Their legs are swollen because they can't
move."
Human Rights Watch have accused Iraqi forces of
holding dozens of women and children with alleged
links to IS at a "psychological and ideological
rehabilitation" camp, with the organisation urging Iraq
not to punish the entire families of IS fighters.

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