The Syrian Initiative to Combat Statelessness 30 he continued to abuse me after knowing that I was pregnant with - a child of ISIS!” “He called him that, although he was fully aware of the circumstances of my forced marriage, but he did not forget that my husband is a fighter of ISIS. Even so I hold him fully responsible for my marriage because he did not flee and take us to another city... I lived with my husband in all the circumstances of war and the bombing, but he decided to send me back to my family who moved to another city. So he smuggled me with one of the families without telling them that I was a fighter’s wife for fear of revenge against me. All the torture I suffered with my husband is only a small part of my suffering for losing my child. “ “I remember one time before my marriage, when I went for a hospital visit, and I saw a midwife pointing to an old blanket with a baby inside it and saying to her friend who asked her if she got rid of it or not, and she answered her: It is in heaven! I always imagine my child inside that cover. And his only fault is that his father is a fighter of ISIS. “ | Nihal “I wish to give my daughter my name and my nationality and escape with her to a city where my husband’s family cannot find us, so that the constant threat of her being kidnapped ends. My husband disappeared in a battle four years ago and we did not hear anything about him since. I tried to live with his family in the countryside of Hama, but they refused to recognize my marriage to him. For fear of the Syrian regime, as he joined the Islamic State (ISIS) knowing he was a religious man with good morals far from extremism, and with the insistence of my family in-law not to confirm the marriage or recognize my daughter, I had to return to my family without their knowledge. I do not deny that I think daily about returning her to them, especially after she grew up with that the increased financial burden and due to my inability to benefit from the relief aid provided to widowed women because I do not have any paperwork proving my marriage. Especially since they intend to register her in the name of her uncle and thus, she will obtain a nationality and she will be able to live a decent life. “ | Baraa ““I always think about the future of my children in case I had to leave the Kurdish “Autonomous-Administration” areas, because the papers I obtained from them are not recognized by anyone. Neither in the regime-held