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. [1] [2]
Many of those women subsequently acquired high public profiles, either through their efforts to recruit more volunteers, or when they died or because they recanted and wished to return to their home countries. Commentators noted that it would be hard to differentiate between the women who played an active role in atrocities and those who were housewives. [3]
Name | Birth year |
Date of joining | Status | Home country |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Zagidat Abakarova | 1985 | 2014 | Repatriated to Russia in 2017, given a suspended sentence | Russia | |
Amira Abase | 2001 | 2015 | Missing, last confirmed alive in Baghuz in 2019 | United Kingdom |
|
Rawdah Abdisalaam / UmmWaqqas | 2014 | Unknown | United States / Finland |
| |
Suhayra Aden | 1995 | 2014 | Repatriated to New Zealand in 2021 | Australia/ New Zealand |
|
Zahra Ahmad | Unknown whereabouts | Australia |
| ||
Zara Ahmed | Unknown, held in Al-Hawl refugee camp | Australia |
| ||
Amandine Le Coz | 1990 | 2014 | Repatriated to France by Turkey in 2019 | France | |
Farzana Ameen | 1975 | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom |
|
Shayma Assaad | 2000 | 2015 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp since 2019 | Australia |
|
Aylam | 2015 | Believed to have been killed in "a bombing" | Australia |
| |
Fauzia Khamal Bacha | 2014 | Dead (before 2019) | Singapore |
| |
Emilie Konig | 1984 | 2012 | Repatriated back to France in 2022 [33] | France | |
Zahera Tariq | 1982 | 2015 | Released from British prison in 2019 | United Kingdom |
|
Aqsa Mahmood | 1994 | 2013 | Missing, believed to have died before 2019 | United Kingdom |
|
Yusra Hussien | 1999 | 2014 | Missing since 2015 | United Kingdom |
|
Samya Dirie | 1997 | 2014 | Unknown whereabouts | United Kingdom |
|
Nicole Jack | 1987 | 2015 | Held in Roj refugee camp since 2019 | United Kingdom |
|
Hoda Muthana | 1994 | 2014 | Held in the Al Hawl Camp since 2019 | United States |
|
Mehdia | 1999 | 2016 | Held in Al Hawl Camp since at least 2020 | China |
|
Ariel Bradley | 1985 | 2014 | Died in an airstrike in 2018 | United States |
|
Daniela Greene | 1980 | 2014 | Returned to the United States in 2014 | United States |
|
Minera Khatun | 1962 | 2015 | Died of natural causes (before 2019) | United Kingdom | |
Sheida Khanam | 1988 | 2015 | Died in an airstrike in Baghouz in 2019 | United Kingdom | |
Roshanara Begum | 1991 | 2015 | Died in an airstrike in Baghouz in 2019 | United Kingdom | |
Rajia Khanom | 1994 | 2015 | Died in an airstrike in Baghouz in 2019 | United Kingdom | |
Deqo Osman | 1997 | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom |
|
Zohura Siddeka | 1987 | 2014 | Unknown | United Kingdom |
|
Grace 'Khadijah' Dare |
1990 | 2012 | Unknown, last confirmed alive in 2016 [60] | United Kingdom | |
Salma Halane | 1998 | 2014 | Unknown whereabouts, but believed to still be alive | United Kingdom |
|
Zahra Halane | 1998 | 2014 | Held in the Roj refugee camp since 2020 | United Kingdom |
|
Tara Nettleton | 1983 | 2013 | Died in 2015 from appendix surgery complications | Australia |
|
Zaynab Sharrouf | 2001 | 2013 | Repatriated to Australia in 2019 | Australia |
|
Zehra Duman | 1993 | 2014 | Held in al-Hawl camp since 2019 | Australia |
|
Shams / Umm al Baraa / Bird of Jannah | 1988 | 2014 | Unknown, last social media update in 2015 | Malaysia |
|
Gailon Su / Gailon Lawson [70] | 1972 | 2014 | Held in Al Hol since 2015 | Trinidad and Tobago | |
Kimberly Gwen Polman | 1972 | 2015 | Held in the Al Hawl Camp since 2019 | Canada/ United States |
|
Shadi Jabar Khalil Mohammad | 1994/5 | 2015 | Died from an air strike in Al-Bab in 2016 [75] | Australia |
|
Reema Iqbal | 1990 | 2013 | Held in Roj camp | United Kingdom | |
Zara Iqbal | 1992 | 2013 | Held in an unknown refugee camp | United Kingdom | |
Natalie Bracht | 2013 | Returned to Germany, before being repatriated to the United Kingdom in 2020 | United Kingdom |
| |
Ruzina Khanam | 1992 | 2013 | Missing, last confirmed alive in Raqqa in 2019 [86] | United Kingdom | |
Maylbongwe Sibanda | 2013 | Unknown | United Kingdom | ||
Khadija Bibi Dawood | 1985 | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom | |
Sugra Dawood | 1981 | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom |
|
Zohra Dawood | 1982 | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom |
|
GreenBirdofDabiq | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom (possibly) |
| |
Jamila Henry | 1993 | 2015 | Unknown, but living in the United Kingdom | United Kingdom | |
Leonora Messing | 2000 | 2015 | Repatriated to Germany in December 2020 | Germany | |
Jennifer Wenisch | 1991 | Before 2015 | Sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Germany | Germany |
|
"Hass Coast" | 2014 | Unknown | France |
| |
Djamila Boutoutaou | 1990 | 2014 | Sentenced to life imprisonment in Iraq [97] | France |
|
Hayat Boumeddiene | 1988 | 2015 | Missing since 2015, possibly being held in Al-Hawl refugee camp [98] | France |
|
Shamima Begum | 1999 | 2015 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp since 2019 [93] | United Kingdom | |
Kadiza Sultana | 2000 | 2015 | Died in an airstrike in Raqqa in 2016 [2] | United Kingdom |
|
Nassima Begum | 1990 | 2012 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp | United Kingdom |
|
Sharmeena Begum | 1999 | 2014 | Missing, last confirmed alive in Baghuz in 2019 | United Kingdom |
|
Sally Jones | 1968 | 2013 | Killed by a drone strike in 2017 [107] | United Kingdom |
|
Fatiha Mejjati | 1961 | 2014 | Believed to be hiding in Idlib as of 2020 | Morocco |
|
Zalina Gabibulayeva | 1981 | 2014 | Repatriated to Russia in 2017, given a suspended sentence | Russia |
|
Linda Wenzel | 2001 | 2016 | Serving a 6-year prison sentence in Iraq | Germany |
|
"Sanna" | 1972 | 2014 | Repatriated to Finland in 2020 | Finland |
|
Sabina Selimovic | 1999 | 2014 | Killed in unclear circumstances in 2014 | Austria | |
Samra Kesinovic | 1997 | 2014 | Killed after attempting to escape in 2015 | Austria | |
Kirsty Rosse-Emile | 1995 | 2014 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp since 2019 | Australia |
|
Janai Safar | 1996 | 2015 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp since 2017 | Australia |
|
Lisa Smith | 1981 | 2015 | Returned to Ireland in 2019 | Ireland |
|
Dullel Kassab | 1985 | 2014 | Killed in an airstrike in Syria before 2020 | Australia |
|
Nûh Suwaidi | 1995 | Currently on trial in Iraq | Germany |
| |
Nora Camali | 2015 | Held in an unknown Iraqi prison | United Kingdom |
| |
Mariam Dabboussy | 1992 | 2015 | Held in Al-Roj camp since 2019 | Australia |
|
Nesrine Zahab | 1994 | 2014 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp since 2017 | Australia | |
Hafsa Sliti | 1988 | 2015 | Held in Al-Roj refugee camp since 2018 | Belgium |
|
Samantha Marie Elhassani | 1985 | 2014 | Repatriated to the United States in 2018, currently in prison | United States |
|
Ayan Juma / Rahma Sadiq Juma [150] | 1994 | 2013 | Unknown, last contact in December 2013 | Norway | |
Leila Juma / Ugbad Sadiq Juma [150] | 1994 | 2013 | Unknown, last contact in December 2013 | Norway |
|
Tareena Shakil | 1989 | 2014 | Released from prison in 2018 | United Kingdom |
|
Name | Year of Birth | Date of joining | Status | Home Country | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jaelyn Delshaun Young | 1994 | 2015 | Imprisoned since 2016 | United States |
|
Shannon Maureen Conley | 1996 | 2014 | Released from prison in 2019 | United States |
|
Keonna Thomas | 1983/4 | 2013 | Released from prison in 2022 | United States |
|
Heather Elizabeth Coffman | 1986 | 2014 | Released from prison in 2017 | United States |
|
Haleema Mustafa | 1997 | 2018 | Charges stayed in 2021, currently living in Toronto | Canada |
|
Amal / BintRose | 2015 | Unknown | Austria (Believed) |
|
Country | Number of ISIL brides [a] |
---|---|
United Kingdom | 33
|
Australia | 14
|
United States | 10
|
France | 5
|
Germany | 4
|
Austria | 3
|
Canada | 2
|
Finland | 2
|
Norway | 2
|
Russia | 2
|
Belgium | 1
|
China | 1
|
Ireland | 1
|
Malaysia | 1
|
Morocco | 1
|
New Zealand | 1
|
Singapore | 1
|
Trinidad and Tobago | 1
|
In 2015, Begum left with two school friends from their home in Bethnal Green to join Isis in Syria. She said this week that she did not regret her decision to go to Syria, but that she was nine months pregnant and wanted to come home to 'live quietly with [her] child'.
The Times newspaper managed to find an unrepentant Begum – now 19 and about to give birth for the third time after seeing her first two children die – at a refugee camp in eastern Syria.
Investigators looking for clues to the individual actions of each woman, away from social media, will have a difficult time gathering evidence admissible in a court of law.
Natalie Bracht, Ruzina Khanam and Maylbongwe Sibanda are said to have travelled to Syria with the Iqbal sisters and their Portuguese-born husbands in 2013.[ permanent dead link]
Sultana is now believed to be dead, Sharmeena Begum and Abase are missing, Riedijk has turned himself in to authorities, and Shamima Begum is asking to return to London.
Among these men is notorious Islamic State recruiter Muhammad Zahab, who took the couple's eldest daughter Zahra as a second wife.
A second Australian woman, Zara Ahmed, said security in the camp was continuing to deteriorate, with a woman's mutilated body found in the toilets. 'I'm so scared, I don't know how much longer I can do this for,' she said.
Parmi ces mères, Amandine, qu'une équipe de France 2 avait filmée en décembre 2018 dans le camp de Roj, au nord-est de la Syrie. Originaire du Calvados, elle s'est mariée à deux reprises, à chaque fois avec un jihadiste, et est mère d'un enfant. Elle va donc finalement rentrer avec son fils, mais comme les autres rapatriés, elle sera incarcérée sur le champ. En revanche, les enfants seront confiés aux services sociaux.
Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age from al-Hawl camp, 16-year-old Hoda Sharrouf also says she forgives her father and mother, Tara Nettleton, for dragging her to Syria along with her four siblings when she was just 11 years old.
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The others are three children aged six to 12, who are the offspring of ISIS fighter Yasin Rizvic and his wife, Fauzia Khamal Bacha.
The remaining three are the children of the foreign fighter Yasin Rizvic and his wife, Fauzia Khamal Bacha, who joined Isis in 2014. It is the first instance of Australian children of foreign fighters being rescued from the northern Syrian camps.
Fauziah Begum Khamal Bacha, who was living in Melbourne, is one of four radicalised Singaporeans known to have taken part in the Syrian conflict. Her husband, Yasin Rizvic, and their eldest son are also said to be dead.
The remaining three are the children of the foreign fighter Yasin Rizvic and his wife, Fauzia Khamal Bacha, who joined Isis in 2014.
A woman who left France and became a prominent propagandist and recruiter for the Islamic State has asked her family, friends and country for a pardon.
For many months in 2015, her Twitter feed was full of bloodcurdling incitement, and she says she remained a zealot until the following year. She now says her account was taken over by others.
Greene's saga, which has never been publicized, exposes an embarrassing breach of national security at the FBI – an agency that has made its mission rooting out ISIS sympathizers across the country.
On June 11, 2014, Greene told an FBI supervisor in Indianapolis that she was traveling to Germany to see her family. She filled out the required form and listed "vacation/personal" as the reason for going. Her declared return date: July 4, 2014.
On Monday, Greene was revealed to have spent two years in the slammer for lying about a 2014 trip she took to Syria, where she hooked up with notorious German rapper-turned-ISIS recruiter Denis "Deso Dogg" Cuspert.
Amid the investigation, court records show, Greene fell in love with Cuspert, sneaked off to Syria in the summer of 2014, married him and warned him that "the FBI had an open investigation into his activities". She quickly became disenchanted – e-mailing an unnamed person that she had "made a mess of things" – and somehow managed to escape Syria and get back to the U.S., where she was arrested.
Also from Melbourne, Zehra married a Melbourne man who was fighting for Islamic State, Mahmoud Abdullatif. He was killed in action just five weeks later.
Ms. Muthana and Ms. Polman acknowledged in the interview here that many Americans would question whether they deserved to be brought back home after joining one of the world's deadliest terrorist groups.
Reema Iqbal and her sister, Zara, have five boys under the age of eight between them and are being held in a Syrian detention camp. Reports of them losing their right to return to the UK after losing their citizenship rights come as it was confirmed that Bangladeshi-origin Shamima Begum lost her three-week-old baby in a Syrian refugee camp days after her British citizenship was similarly revoked.
Two more Isis brides from Britain held with their young children in squalid Syrian detention camps are believed to have been stripped of their citizenship amid a growing political row over the death of Shamima Begum's three-week-old baby.
The paper quoted legal sources, naming the women as Reema Iqbal, 30, and her sister Zara, 28, whose parents are originally from Pakistan.
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She claimed to have been a housewife, who 'couldn't even point to Syria on a map' when the family moved here in 2012 – before Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's caliphate was declared two years later.
Some of these ISIS brides living in Syria and Iraq have made the terrorist watchlist. Arguably the most dangerous is Sally Jones, 49, a British Muslim convert who goes by the nom de guerre Umm Hussain al-Britani. She is reportedly now on a British special-forces "kill list" after threatening Queen Elizabeth II.
Six months' pregnant, Kirsty Rosse-Emile, 24, used to write about Justin Bieber, AFL scores and the soccer World Cup on her Facebook page before her posts suddenly changed about nine years ago.
As an Isil bride, officers consider Ms. Smith to be a sympathiser rather than a fighter with Isil and this is expected to be taken into account when she is questioned after her return to Ireland.
Ms Kassab's father said she went to Syria to find out what happened to her husband.
Mother Dullel Kassab has bragged online that her four-year-old daughter wants to watch videos of Muslims killing bad people.
Then, there is the scarcity of medical care. The wife of an ISIS fighter was totally ignored as her blood pooled on the hospital floor during a painful miscarriage. According to Kassab: 'She wasn't offered a chair or a bed and nobody even returned to check on her… The muhajireen (migrants) are also subjected to mistreatment and discrimination by the locals.'
While the details of many of the women's stories are unknown, some have come forward to explain themselves, including Mariam Dabboussy. She says that in late 2015, she was forced by gunpoint over the Turkish border with Syria, after traveling there in what her husband claimed was an attempt to extract a relative who was trying to escape the Islamic State.
A second Australian woman, Zara Ahmed, said security in the camp was continuing to deteriorate, with a woman's mutilated body found in the toilets. 'I'm so scared, I don't know how much longer I can do this for,' she said.
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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. [1] [2]
Many of those women subsequently acquired high public profiles, either through their efforts to recruit more volunteers, or when they died or because they recanted and wished to return to their home countries. Commentators noted that it would be hard to differentiate between the women who played an active role in atrocities and those who were housewives. [3]
Name | Birth year |
Date of joining | Status | Home country |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Zagidat Abakarova | 1985 | 2014 | Repatriated to Russia in 2017, given a suspended sentence | Russia | |
Amira Abase | 2001 | 2015 | Missing, last confirmed alive in Baghuz in 2019 | United Kingdom |
|
Rawdah Abdisalaam / UmmWaqqas | 2014 | Unknown | United States / Finland |
| |
Suhayra Aden | 1995 | 2014 | Repatriated to New Zealand in 2021 | Australia/ New Zealand |
|
Zahra Ahmad | Unknown whereabouts | Australia |
| ||
Zara Ahmed | Unknown, held in Al-Hawl refugee camp | Australia |
| ||
Amandine Le Coz | 1990 | 2014 | Repatriated to France by Turkey in 2019 | France | |
Farzana Ameen | 1975 | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom |
|
Shayma Assaad | 2000 | 2015 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp since 2019 | Australia |
|
Aylam | 2015 | Believed to have been killed in "a bombing" | Australia |
| |
Fauzia Khamal Bacha | 2014 | Dead (before 2019) | Singapore |
| |
Emilie Konig | 1984 | 2012 | Repatriated back to France in 2022 [33] | France | |
Zahera Tariq | 1982 | 2015 | Released from British prison in 2019 | United Kingdom |
|
Aqsa Mahmood | 1994 | 2013 | Missing, believed to have died before 2019 | United Kingdom |
|
Yusra Hussien | 1999 | 2014 | Missing since 2015 | United Kingdom |
|
Samya Dirie | 1997 | 2014 | Unknown whereabouts | United Kingdom |
|
Nicole Jack | 1987 | 2015 | Held in Roj refugee camp since 2019 | United Kingdom |
|
Hoda Muthana | 1994 | 2014 | Held in the Al Hawl Camp since 2019 | United States |
|
Mehdia | 1999 | 2016 | Held in Al Hawl Camp since at least 2020 | China |
|
Ariel Bradley | 1985 | 2014 | Died in an airstrike in 2018 | United States |
|
Daniela Greene | 1980 | 2014 | Returned to the United States in 2014 | United States |
|
Minera Khatun | 1962 | 2015 | Died of natural causes (before 2019) | United Kingdom | |
Sheida Khanam | 1988 | 2015 | Died in an airstrike in Baghouz in 2019 | United Kingdom | |
Roshanara Begum | 1991 | 2015 | Died in an airstrike in Baghouz in 2019 | United Kingdom | |
Rajia Khanom | 1994 | 2015 | Died in an airstrike in Baghouz in 2019 | United Kingdom | |
Deqo Osman | 1997 | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom |
|
Zohura Siddeka | 1987 | 2014 | Unknown | United Kingdom |
|
Grace 'Khadijah' Dare |
1990 | 2012 | Unknown, last confirmed alive in 2016 [60] | United Kingdom | |
Salma Halane | 1998 | 2014 | Unknown whereabouts, but believed to still be alive | United Kingdom |
|
Zahra Halane | 1998 | 2014 | Held in the Roj refugee camp since 2020 | United Kingdom |
|
Tara Nettleton | 1983 | 2013 | Died in 2015 from appendix surgery complications | Australia |
|
Zaynab Sharrouf | 2001 | 2013 | Repatriated to Australia in 2019 | Australia |
|
Zehra Duman | 1993 | 2014 | Held in al-Hawl camp since 2019 | Australia |
|
Shams / Umm al Baraa / Bird of Jannah | 1988 | 2014 | Unknown, last social media update in 2015 | Malaysia |
|
Gailon Su / Gailon Lawson [70] | 1972 | 2014 | Held in Al Hol since 2015 | Trinidad and Tobago | |
Kimberly Gwen Polman | 1972 | 2015 | Held in the Al Hawl Camp since 2019 | Canada/ United States |
|
Shadi Jabar Khalil Mohammad | 1994/5 | 2015 | Died from an air strike in Al-Bab in 2016 [75] | Australia |
|
Reema Iqbal | 1990 | 2013 | Held in Roj camp | United Kingdom | |
Zara Iqbal | 1992 | 2013 | Held in an unknown refugee camp | United Kingdom | |
Natalie Bracht | 2013 | Returned to Germany, before being repatriated to the United Kingdom in 2020 | United Kingdom |
| |
Ruzina Khanam | 1992 | 2013 | Missing, last confirmed alive in Raqqa in 2019 [86] | United Kingdom | |
Maylbongwe Sibanda | 2013 | Unknown | United Kingdom | ||
Khadija Bibi Dawood | 1985 | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom | |
Sugra Dawood | 1981 | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom |
|
Zohra Dawood | 1982 | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom |
|
GreenBirdofDabiq | 2015 | Unknown | United Kingdom (possibly) |
| |
Jamila Henry | 1993 | 2015 | Unknown, but living in the United Kingdom | United Kingdom | |
Leonora Messing | 2000 | 2015 | Repatriated to Germany in December 2020 | Germany | |
Jennifer Wenisch | 1991 | Before 2015 | Sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Germany | Germany |
|
"Hass Coast" | 2014 | Unknown | France |
| |
Djamila Boutoutaou | 1990 | 2014 | Sentenced to life imprisonment in Iraq [97] | France |
|
Hayat Boumeddiene | 1988 | 2015 | Missing since 2015, possibly being held in Al-Hawl refugee camp [98] | France |
|
Shamima Begum | 1999 | 2015 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp since 2019 [93] | United Kingdom | |
Kadiza Sultana | 2000 | 2015 | Died in an airstrike in Raqqa in 2016 [2] | United Kingdom |
|
Nassima Begum | 1990 | 2012 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp | United Kingdom |
|
Sharmeena Begum | 1999 | 2014 | Missing, last confirmed alive in Baghuz in 2019 | United Kingdom |
|
Sally Jones | 1968 | 2013 | Killed by a drone strike in 2017 [107] | United Kingdom |
|
Fatiha Mejjati | 1961 | 2014 | Believed to be hiding in Idlib as of 2020 | Morocco |
|
Zalina Gabibulayeva | 1981 | 2014 | Repatriated to Russia in 2017, given a suspended sentence | Russia |
|
Linda Wenzel | 2001 | 2016 | Serving a 6-year prison sentence in Iraq | Germany |
|
"Sanna" | 1972 | 2014 | Repatriated to Finland in 2020 | Finland |
|
Sabina Selimovic | 1999 | 2014 | Killed in unclear circumstances in 2014 | Austria | |
Samra Kesinovic | 1997 | 2014 | Killed after attempting to escape in 2015 | Austria | |
Kirsty Rosse-Emile | 1995 | 2014 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp since 2019 | Australia |
|
Janai Safar | 1996 | 2015 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp since 2017 | Australia |
|
Lisa Smith | 1981 | 2015 | Returned to Ireland in 2019 | Ireland |
|
Dullel Kassab | 1985 | 2014 | Killed in an airstrike in Syria before 2020 | Australia |
|
Nûh Suwaidi | 1995 | Currently on trial in Iraq | Germany |
| |
Nora Camali | 2015 | Held in an unknown Iraqi prison | United Kingdom |
| |
Mariam Dabboussy | 1992 | 2015 | Held in Al-Roj camp since 2019 | Australia |
|
Nesrine Zahab | 1994 | 2014 | Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp since 2017 | Australia | |
Hafsa Sliti | 1988 | 2015 | Held in Al-Roj refugee camp since 2018 | Belgium |
|
Samantha Marie Elhassani | 1985 | 2014 | Repatriated to the United States in 2018, currently in prison | United States |
|
Ayan Juma / Rahma Sadiq Juma [150] | 1994 | 2013 | Unknown, last contact in December 2013 | Norway | |
Leila Juma / Ugbad Sadiq Juma [150] | 1994 | 2013 | Unknown, last contact in December 2013 | Norway |
|
Tareena Shakil | 1989 | 2014 | Released from prison in 2018 | United Kingdom |
|
Name | Year of Birth | Date of joining | Status | Home Country | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jaelyn Delshaun Young | 1994 | 2015 | Imprisoned since 2016 | United States |
|
Shannon Maureen Conley | 1996 | 2014 | Released from prison in 2019 | United States |
|
Keonna Thomas | 1983/4 | 2013 | Released from prison in 2022 | United States |
|
Heather Elizabeth Coffman | 1986 | 2014 | Released from prison in 2017 | United States |
|
Haleema Mustafa | 1997 | 2018 | Charges stayed in 2021, currently living in Toronto | Canada |
|
Amal / BintRose | 2015 | Unknown | Austria (Believed) |
|
Country | Number of ISIL brides [a] |
---|---|
United Kingdom | 33
|
Australia | 14
|
United States | 10
|
France | 5
|
Germany | 4
|
Austria | 3
|
Canada | 2
|
Finland | 2
|
Norway | 2
|
Russia | 2
|
Belgium | 1
|
China | 1
|
Ireland | 1
|
Malaysia | 1
|
Morocco | 1
|
New Zealand | 1
|
Singapore | 1
|
Trinidad and Tobago | 1
|
In 2015, Begum left with two school friends from their home in Bethnal Green to join Isis in Syria. She said this week that she did not regret her decision to go to Syria, but that she was nine months pregnant and wanted to come home to 'live quietly with [her] child'.
The Times newspaper managed to find an unrepentant Begum – now 19 and about to give birth for the third time after seeing her first two children die – at a refugee camp in eastern Syria.
Investigators looking for clues to the individual actions of each woman, away from social media, will have a difficult time gathering evidence admissible in a court of law.
Natalie Bracht, Ruzina Khanam and Maylbongwe Sibanda are said to have travelled to Syria with the Iqbal sisters and their Portuguese-born husbands in 2013.[ permanent dead link]
Sultana is now believed to be dead, Sharmeena Begum and Abase are missing, Riedijk has turned himself in to authorities, and Shamima Begum is asking to return to London.
Among these men is notorious Islamic State recruiter Muhammad Zahab, who took the couple's eldest daughter Zahra as a second wife.
A second Australian woman, Zara Ahmed, said security in the camp was continuing to deteriorate, with a woman's mutilated body found in the toilets. 'I'm so scared, I don't know how much longer I can do this for,' she said.
Parmi ces mères, Amandine, qu'une équipe de France 2 avait filmée en décembre 2018 dans le camp de Roj, au nord-est de la Syrie. Originaire du Calvados, elle s'est mariée à deux reprises, à chaque fois avec un jihadiste, et est mère d'un enfant. Elle va donc finalement rentrer avec son fils, mais comme les autres rapatriés, elle sera incarcérée sur le champ. En revanche, les enfants seront confiés aux services sociaux.
Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age from al-Hawl camp, 16-year-old Hoda Sharrouf also says she forgives her father and mother, Tara Nettleton, for dragging her to Syria along with her four siblings when she was just 11 years old.
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The others are three children aged six to 12, who are the offspring of ISIS fighter Yasin Rizvic and his wife, Fauzia Khamal Bacha.
The remaining three are the children of the foreign fighter Yasin Rizvic and his wife, Fauzia Khamal Bacha, who joined Isis in 2014. It is the first instance of Australian children of foreign fighters being rescued from the northern Syrian camps.
Fauziah Begum Khamal Bacha, who was living in Melbourne, is one of four radicalised Singaporeans known to have taken part in the Syrian conflict. Her husband, Yasin Rizvic, and their eldest son are also said to be dead.
The remaining three are the children of the foreign fighter Yasin Rizvic and his wife, Fauzia Khamal Bacha, who joined Isis in 2014.
A woman who left France and became a prominent propagandist and recruiter for the Islamic State has asked her family, friends and country for a pardon.
For many months in 2015, her Twitter feed was full of bloodcurdling incitement, and she says she remained a zealot until the following year. She now says her account was taken over by others.
Greene's saga, which has never been publicized, exposes an embarrassing breach of national security at the FBI – an agency that has made its mission rooting out ISIS sympathizers across the country.
On June 11, 2014, Greene told an FBI supervisor in Indianapolis that she was traveling to Germany to see her family. She filled out the required form and listed "vacation/personal" as the reason for going. Her declared return date: July 4, 2014.
On Monday, Greene was revealed to have spent two years in the slammer for lying about a 2014 trip she took to Syria, where she hooked up with notorious German rapper-turned-ISIS recruiter Denis "Deso Dogg" Cuspert.
Amid the investigation, court records show, Greene fell in love with Cuspert, sneaked off to Syria in the summer of 2014, married him and warned him that "the FBI had an open investigation into his activities". She quickly became disenchanted – e-mailing an unnamed person that she had "made a mess of things" – and somehow managed to escape Syria and get back to the U.S., where she was arrested.
Also from Melbourne, Zehra married a Melbourne man who was fighting for Islamic State, Mahmoud Abdullatif. He was killed in action just five weeks later.
Ms. Muthana and Ms. Polman acknowledged in the interview here that many Americans would question whether they deserved to be brought back home after joining one of the world's deadliest terrorist groups.
Reema Iqbal and her sister, Zara, have five boys under the age of eight between them and are being held in a Syrian detention camp. Reports of them losing their right to return to the UK after losing their citizenship rights come as it was confirmed that Bangladeshi-origin Shamima Begum lost her three-week-old baby in a Syrian refugee camp days after her British citizenship was similarly revoked.
Two more Isis brides from Britain held with their young children in squalid Syrian detention camps are believed to have been stripped of their citizenship amid a growing political row over the death of Shamima Begum's three-week-old baby.
The paper quoted legal sources, naming the women as Reema Iqbal, 30, and her sister Zara, 28, whose parents are originally from Pakistan.
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She claimed to have been a housewife, who 'couldn't even point to Syria on a map' when the family moved here in 2012 – before Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's caliphate was declared two years later.
Some of these ISIS brides living in Syria and Iraq have made the terrorist watchlist. Arguably the most dangerous is Sally Jones, 49, a British Muslim convert who goes by the nom de guerre Umm Hussain al-Britani. She is reportedly now on a British special-forces "kill list" after threatening Queen Elizabeth II.
Six months' pregnant, Kirsty Rosse-Emile, 24, used to write about Justin Bieber, AFL scores and the soccer World Cup on her Facebook page before her posts suddenly changed about nine years ago.
As an Isil bride, officers consider Ms. Smith to be a sympathiser rather than a fighter with Isil and this is expected to be taken into account when she is questioned after her return to Ireland.
Ms Kassab's father said she went to Syria to find out what happened to her husband.
Mother Dullel Kassab has bragged online that her four-year-old daughter wants to watch videos of Muslims killing bad people.
Then, there is the scarcity of medical care. The wife of an ISIS fighter was totally ignored as her blood pooled on the hospital floor during a painful miscarriage. According to Kassab: 'She wasn't offered a chair or a bed and nobody even returned to check on her… The muhajireen (migrants) are also subjected to mistreatment and discrimination by the locals.'
While the details of many of the women's stories are unknown, some have come forward to explain themselves, including Mariam Dabboussy. She says that in late 2015, she was forced by gunpoint over the Turkish border with Syria, after traveling there in what her husband claimed was an attempt to extract a relative who was trying to escape the Islamic State.
A second Australian woman, Zara Ahmed, said security in the camp was continuing to deteriorate, with a woman's mutilated body found in the toilets. 'I'm so scared, I don't know how much longer I can do this for,' she said.
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In November 2014, Elhassani was informed by her husband that he and his brother wanted to travel to Syria to join ISIS, which she knew was a terrorist organization that engaged in terrorist activities.
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