US citizen convicted of receiving ISIS military training in Syria

Summarised from 3 outlets · Updated 28 Oct, 11:20 · Archive

Halima Salman, a 27-year-old US citizen from Brooklyn, was convicted of receiving military-style training from ISIS in Syria.

A federal jury on Tuesday convicted Halima Salman, a 27-year-old US citizen and former Brooklyn resident, of knowingly receiving military-style training from ISIS in Syria. She faces up to ten years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on 2 February. This is believed to be the first time a woman accused of joining ISIS has stood trial in US federal court.

Prosecutors said Salman was taken to Syria by her family in 2016 when she was eighteen. There she married an ISIS fighter and pledged loyalty to the group. She received authorisation to carry an assault rifle and was given a document certifying completion of the training, which was later recovered from her husband's cellphone. Jurors were shown video of her holding an assault rifle, a photograph with the ISIS flag and text messages she sent to her husband.

The defence sought to portray Salman as a teenager trapped in Syria's civil war first by her father and later by an extremist husband. Salman testified that she had refused to be 'married off' at eighteen and repeatedly tried to get a divorce. 'You try to leave, it is death,' she said. Salman and her mother wept after the verdict was announced.

How it is being reported

• US teen whose father arranged her marriage to Islamic State fighter convicted for weapons training‘You try to leave, it is death,’ Halima Salman testified. Her mother and defense attorneys wept after the verdict A New York woman whose father took her to Syria as a teenager and arranged her marriage to an Islamic State fighter was convicted on Tuesday of receiving weapons training from the militant group. Prosecutors said Halima Salman, a US citizen, pledged loyalty to the extremist group and willingly participated in its activities. Jurors were shown a video of her holding an assault rifle, a photo of her with the group’s flag and loving text messages she sent her husband. Continue…Guardian World · 28 Oct, 13:36
• American who was ISIS teen bride convicted of getting weapons trainingProsecutors said U.S. citizen Halima Salman, now 27, pledged loyalty to the extremist group and willingly participated in its activities.CBS News · 28 Oct, 11:06
• Halima Salman convicted of receiving ISIS military training in Syria, faces 10 years in prisonHalima Salman, a former Brooklyn resident and U.S. citizen, was convicted in federal court of receiving ISIS military-style training in Syria.Fox News · 28 Oct, 03:20

In this story: Halima Salman · ISIS · Syria · Brooklyn · United States · Joseph Nocella Jr.

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