(Photo: Alexandria Virginia Sheriff's Office/AFP)A former US schoolteacher who became a high-ranking Islamic State official and organized an all-female IS military battalion, pleaded guilty Tuesday to supporting a foreign terrorist group, the Justice department said. "Over 100 women and young girls, including as young as 10 or 11-years-old, received military training from Fluke-Ekren in Syria on behalf of ISIS," they said, referring to the Islamic State. After that they went to Turkey and Syria, where her husband became a leader of an Islamic State sniper group. While in Syria, the department said, she spoke of desires to bomb a shopping mall or a university campus in the United States. In 2016-17 she became leader of the all-woman Khatiba Nusaybah battalion, which undertook physical, medical and weapons training to support the Islamic State.

Source: Libya Today June 08, 2022 06:25 UTC