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Beginning in 2012, dozens of girls and women traveled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State (IS), becoming brides of Islamic State fighters. While some traveled willingly, others were brought to Iraq and Syria as minors by their parents or family or forcefully.
Feb 23, 2023 · The story of ISIS bride Shamima Begum. Shamima Begum, a British national who left England to join ISIS forces in Syria when she was 15, lost the fight to restore her U.K. citizenship on...
Apr 19, 2018 · For Samantha Sally, a vacation was all it took to flip her quiet middle-American world into the horror of the ritual beatings, serial rape and torture in ISIS’s so-called caliphate.
Jan 10, 2023 · A woman who ran away from home in Alabama to join ISIS said she felt "broken" when the US revoked her citizenship for aiding the terror group.
- Sophia Ankel
Sep 15, 2021 · Shamima Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join IS. There, she married a Dutch recruit and lived under IS rule for more than three years. In 2019...
Shamima Begum (born 25 August 1999) is a British-born woman who entered Syria to join the ISIS terrorist group at the age of 15 and was consequently stripped of UK citizenship. As of 2024, she was living in al-Roj detention camp in Syria.