Rabat, April 3 -- After an attempt to retrieve her grandkids from Syria, Latifa, a 63-year-old Moroccan woman, ended up stranded in Syria. Three years after leaving Morocco, Latifa told her story to the Spanish news agency EFE .

The grandmother of five went to Syria in 2016 after her son, Husein al Guili, a jihadi fighter died in combat. "My son and his wife came to Syria without my permission. After six or eight months, his wife called me to tell me he had died and asked me to come get her and her kids," recounted Latifa.

Her son, Husein al Guili, was 42 years old in 2015 when he joined ISIS alongside his oldest son. The two died shortly after joining ISIS forces during a bombing in the Syrian city of Raqqa.

After hearing of her son's...