ERBIL — A teenage Swedish girl being held by ISIS militants in Iraq was rescued in a raid by Kurdish special forces last week, the autonomous region’s security council said in a statement on Tuesday.

The 16-year-old traveled from Sweden to Syria last year and later crossed into Iraq, where she was rescued near the ISIS stronghold of Mosul on Feb. 17 by forces from the Kurdish counter terrorism department, the statement said.

The Kurdish security council identified the rescued teenager as Marlin Stivani Nivarlain coming from the Swedish town of Boras and said she had been “misled” into making the journey to Syria by an ISIS member in Sweden.

The teenager is currently in the Kurdistan region and will be handed over to Swedish authorities so she can return home once necessary arrangements are made.

Security services estimate that hundreds of Western men and women have left home to join ISIS since they overran large parts of Iraq and Syria in June 2014.

Earlier this month, a mother who took her 14-month-old son to Syria to join ISIS fighters was jailed for six years by a British court.