Four-year-old Bilal Tagirov is looking at his mother but can’t recognize her. He spent the past two years in Syria and then Iraq with his father, who allegedly was fighting alongside Islamic State (IS) terrorists. According to Zaliha Ashahanova, Bilal’s mother and a Chechnya resident, the boy’s father abducted him in 2015.
For more than two years, Ashahanova has been trying to locate the boy. Bilal was found in Mosul in mid-July by Iraqi troops.