The Danish government passed a new law, in October, which enables it to revoke the Danish citizenship of dual-national foreign fighters while they are abroad, even without a court ruling, which previously was a requirement.

Today the government confirmed that "two decisions have been made about revocation of citizenship due to a conduct seriously prejudicial to the vital interests of the state."

The immigration and integration ministry provided no details about the identities of the two people, but Danish media reported they were a 25-year-old man with Turkish and Danish citizenship, and a young woman.

According to daily Berlingske, a Danish court ordered the man, who grew up in western Copenhagen, held in detention in absentia in 2016 for having joined IS. He reportedly left Denmark in 2013 at the age of 19 and has not lived there since.

No details have emerged about the woman. Apparently the ministry is currently examining two other similar cases.

People stripped of their nationality have four weeks to appeal the decision.

According to Radio24syv, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is housing 7 Danish women and 14 children in al-Hol camp.

Now some parties have demanded that children also be stripped of citizenship, a measure opposed by the Child Protection Agency, the Red Cross and the Unity List as it would be contrary to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The organisations argue that children should be brought from Syria to Denmark.