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Jury Weighs Fate of US Woman Who Says Father Forced Her Into Syria’s War Zone when She Was a Teen

Jurors heard conflicting accounts of whether Salman joined ISIS voluntarily or was coerced as a teenager after her father took her into Syria.

  • On Thursday, a Brooklyn jury began deliberations in the trial of Halima Salman, accused of receiving military training from the Islamic State group during her time in Syria.
  • Defense attorney Mia Eisner-Grynberg stated that Salman was 17 when her father drove her from Turkey into Syria without explanation, where gunmen surrounded them and she remained locked in a room for three months.
  • Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Shami portrayed the 27-year-old defendant as manipulative, citing testimony that Salman pledged loyalty to the Islamic State and presented photos of her with the group's flag and an assault rifle.
  • Dismissing the case as "optics, inference and speculation," Eisner-Grynberg insisted prosecutors failed to find witnesses of weapons training and noted a key document lacked the Islamic State official stamp.
  • Salman, arrested in May 2024 at Kennedy International Airport upon returning to the United States, remained free on bail throughout the two-week trial and now faces the jury's decision on her involvement in Syria from 2017 to 2019.
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Jury weighs fate of US woman who says father forced her into Syria’s war zone when she was a teen

The fate of a New York woman who says she was tricked as a teenager by her father into traveling to Syria and marrying a member of the Islamic State

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Jury deliberates in trial of New Yorker who became a teen bride to an Islamic State fighter

A jury is deliberating in the trial of a New York woman charged with getting military training from the Islamic State group in Syria.

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Jury weighs fate of US woman who says father forced her into Syria's war zone when she was a teen

A Brooklyn jury is deliberating the fate of a New York woman who says she was tricked by her father into traveling to Syria and never underwent the weapons training with the Islamic State group that she has been criminally charged with

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Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer broke the news on Thursday, October 22, 2026.
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