An American woman who joined the Islamic State group before being caught by anti-IS forces in Syria was found guilty on Tuesday of receiving military training from the jihadists.
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. 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.
Salman’s mother is an American, and her family traveled from the United States to Syria when she was young. Salman’s defense attorney had claimed she was “the victim of her bringing her as a child to ISIS territory in Syria. 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.
she married German-Afghan IS fighter Abu Ali, according to court documents While there.
