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American woman convicted of getting military training from Islamic State
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An American woman who joined the Islamic State (IS) group before being caught by anti-IS forces in Syria was found guilty on Oct 27 of receiving military training from the jihadists.
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who → join → jihadists
Halima Salman, 27, was one of hundreds of foreign women who went or were taken to the territory controlled by the Islamic State, and who then married jihadist fighters before being captured and detained pending their repatriation.
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who → go → repatriation
The fate of these women and their children has proven a sticking point for the Western countries from where some originated, with many trapped or stripped of their citizenship by their former homelands.
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Salman’s mother is an American, and her family travelled from the United States to Syria when she was young.
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Salman was convicted of receiving military-type training from IS when she was 18, prosecutors said in a statement, a crime that could carry 10 years of imprisonment.
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She will be sentenced at a later date.
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At 17, she travelled to an IS-controlled area of Syria in late 2016 or early 2017, via Russia and Turkey.
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“While in Syria, Salman was trained to use an assault rifle and received ammunition from an ISIS military battalion when she was 18,” prosecutors had alleged, using another acronym for the group.
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While there, she married German-Afghan IS fighter Abu Ali, according to court documents.
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In early 2019, she was taken into custody by Syrian forces opposed to IS and was placed in a relocation camp until 2024, when Salman returned to the US and was arrested.
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“With today’s verdict, Salman is held accountable for joining forces with a terrorist organization,” said United States Attorney Anthony Nocella.
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“ISIS ravaged Syria and caused havoc across the globe; our office will continue to prosecute those who supported its murderous reign.”
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Salman’s defense attorney had claimed she was “the victim of her (mother’s husband) bringing her as a child to ISIS territory in Syria”.
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The attorney added that Salman was unaware of the man’s pro-IS beliefs.
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A US-led coalition was deployed to Iraq and Syria in 2014 to fight the Islamic State group, which had seized large swathes of territory, committed massacres, and forced thousands of women and children into slavery.
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Kurdish forces still hold around 2,200 foreign relatives of suspected Islamic State fighters in a northeastern Syria camp, an official there told AFP earlier in October.
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The Program on Extremism has identified 83 American adults who travelled to Syria or Iraq since 2011 and were affiliated with jihadist groups there.
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