A Missing Mother And Four Children 'Feared To Be Travelling To Syria'.

Police are trying to trace Zahera Tariq, 33, her sons Muhammad, 12, Amaar, 11, Aadid, four and daughter Safiyyah, nine, who were last seen at her home address in Walthamstow, east London, on Tuesday.

They are believed to have flown from London City Airport to Amsterdam later the same day and may now be on their way to Syria, police said.
Several cases have emerged in which women and children from the UK are feared to have gone to parts of Syria controlled by the so-called Islamic State.

In July it was reported that several members of the same family from Luton, including three children, were feared to have travelled to Syria after a holiday in Bangladesh.
Scotland Yard recently confirmed that it believed more than 40 women and girls had travelled to Syria from Britain in the last year