New York woman convicted of receiving military training from ISIS

Halima Salman, a 27-year-old New York native, has been found guilty by a federal jury in Brooklyn of receiving weapons training from ISIS in Syria. The verdict came after three days of deliberations following a week-long trial where prosecutors presented evidence including video footage of her holding an assault rifle and text messages expressing loyalty to her husband, an ISIS fighter whom her father had arranged for her to marry when she was 18 years old. Salman faces up to ten years in prison upon sentencing. Her lawyers attempted to discredit the prosecution's case by questioning the authenticity of evidence such as a training certificate recovered from her late husband’s phone and called for more substantial proof, but their arguments were unsuccessful. The conviction marks the first time a woman has faced trial in the U.S. on charges related to joining ISIS.