A former American schoolteacher who became a high-ranking member of Islamic State and led an all-women’s battalion of militants in Syria pleaded guilty to supporting a foreign terrorist group in a US court yesterday. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, broke down in a federal court in Virginia as she admitted to “terrorism-related activities” and providing material support to the Islamist group in Syria, Libya, and Iraq between 2011 and 2019. She now faces up to 20 years in jail in the first prosecution in the US of a female Isis leader. SponsoredFluke-Ekren, who was born on a farm in Kansas, was deported to the US to face allegations that she trained young women and girls, some as young as ten, to use automatic weapons, grenades and suicide

Source: The Times June 08, 2022 11:40 UTC