It started out as a father-and-son trip to Kosovo's western mountains in July. It turned into a months-long ordeal for an 8-year-old boy who was taken to war-torn Syria by his jihadi father and only returned following a shadowy operation involving Kosovo's spy agency. In an Associated Press interview late Thursday, the boy's 30-year-old mother Pranvera Zena Abazi said, "I thought they were going on a holiday for a couple of days. Three days later I got an SMS from his father, Arben, saying they were in Syria." She was reunited with her son Erion late Wednesday after what Kosovo officials said was a "delicate and dangerous" operation that involved security and intelligence agents. Erion's case received wide attention in Kosovo after his mother made a public appeal for her son's return. Details about Erion's return remain murky.