NYC woman convicted of training with ISIS faces decade in prison

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 28 Oct, 08:44 · Archive

A New York City native has been convicted of receiving military training from ISIS in Syria and faces up to ten years in prison.

Halima Salman, 27, a US citizen born in Brooklyn, was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn on Tuesday of receiving military-type training from ISIS in Syria. The case marked the first time a woman faced trial in the US on charges of joining ISIS. She faces up to ten years in prison at sentencing.

According to prosecutors, Salman left the United States in October 2016 at age 17 with her parents and eight siblings, bound for ISIS-controlled Syria. After arriving, she married an ISIS fighter. At 18, she voluntarily received and completed training from ISIS. Prosecutors presented evidence including a digital copy of a document certifying her completed training found on her husband's cellphone, along with photos of her with an ISIS flag and a video of her holding an AK-47.

Salman testified in her own defence that her father, an ISIS supporter, had forced her to marry the militant fighter. She said her father had moved the family first to Turkey before tricking them into travelling to Syria. She testified that she spent two years in ISIS territory and then five years in a war camp run by the Kurdish regime. She was arrested in May 2024 at JFK Airport after being repatriated as part of a US government effort to bring back American citizens held in detention centres.

How it is being reported

• Federal jury convicts U.S. woman of receiving training from ISISA federal jury has found a 27-year-old woman guilty of receiving military-type training from the Islamic State in Syria.UPI · 28 Oct, 08:22
• NYC native who became ISIS teen bride faces decade in prison as she’s found guilty of training with terror groupThe case marked the first time that a woman faced trial in the US on charges of joining ISIS.New York Post · 27 Oct, 20:25

In this story: Halima Salman · ISIS · Syria · Brooklyn · New York City · Eastern District of New York

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