Women have participated in conflicts and uprising all over the world and challenged both the domestic and international security. Despite this they have rarely been considered real security threats, or capable of terrorism. Women are projected through simplistic images of femininity and the narratives about them, particularly in the media, do not recognise them as complex beings with agency. In an attempt to bring more light to this issue, the intention of this essay is to investigate how the Swedish ISIS women that have returned are portrayed, in order to display the prevailing discourses. This is explored with a critical discourse analysis and furthermore, with Fairclough’s three-dimensional model as framework. The method is intertwined with the theoretical framework- poststructural feminism- which was particularly chosen to fit the study. The material has been chosen from two different news outlets; Dagens Nyheter and Expressen. The findings suggest that there are indicators of change in the portrayal of the women. In two of the three articles analysed, the ISIS women returning are viewed with more suspicion and given more agency instead of being depicted as victims. The result can be seen as a small contribution for how society views women who have been part of a deadly organisation.