Shamima Begum, an ISIS bride who left the UK to join the Islamic State group when she was just 15 years old, has lost the first stage of her appeal against being stripped of her British citizenship.

EXCLUSIVE: Buses have been seen taking former Islamic State fighters out of detention camps in Syria where Shamima Begum is ...

Advertisement The film reflects a real-life phenomenon where ISIS recruits Muslim women to join them as their brides. To depict young people making such a drastic choice requires empathy for their ...

Nadia Fall's debut, Brides, is a bold coming-of-age story about two teen girls who go on a road trip to Syria to become child brides for ISIS.

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Clearly inspired by cases like that of Shamima Begum, the London teen who traveled in secret to Syria to become an ISIS bride, Nadia Fall‘s debut feature seems on the surface like a hot-button ...

She says she married a Dutch convert soon after arriving in ISIS-held territory. She was discovered, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February last year. Her newborn baby died soon ...

His comments come after ISIS bride Shamima Begum last year lost her final appeal against the government's decision to rescind her British citizenship. It is thought she would be one of the ...

Safiyya Ingar (L) and Ebada Hassan star in "Brides," which premiered Friday at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute ...