Brooklyn Woman Convicted of ISIS Weapons Training in Syria
Jurors said she received AK-47 training with an all-female ISIS brigade after prosecutors argued she willingly joined the militant group.
- On Tuesday, a Brooklyn Federal Court jury convicted Halima Salman, 27, of knowingly receiving military training from the Islamic State group after her father moved the family to Syria in 2017.
- Salman's father moved the family from Brooklyn to Syria in 2017 under the guise of visiting relatives, then arranged her marriage to Islamic State fighter Abu Ali when she turned 18.
- Prosecutors presented a video of Salman handling an AK-47, a handwritten document authorizing her weapon access, and testimony she selected the ISIS name "foreign fighter."
- The conviction carries a maximum 10-year federal prison sentence, while defense attorney Mia Eisner-Grynberg called the prosecution "a grave miscarriage of justice" during closing arguments.
- After five years in a northeast Syrian detention camp, Salman's mother secured the family's repatriation in May 2024; U.S. authorities arrested her upon arrival at John F. Kennedy Airport.
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Rutland Herald
Yakima Herald-RepublicUS woman convicted of getting Islamic State training after becoming teen bride to a fighter
A New York woman whose father took her to Syria as a teenager and arranged her marriage to an Islamic State fighter has been convicted of receiving weapons training from the militant group. Halima Salman burst into tears on hearing…
Radio France Internationale
American woman convicted of getting military training from Islamic State
Halima Salman, 27, was one of hundreds of foreign women who went or were taken to the territory controlled by the Islamic State (IS), and who then married jihadist fighters before being captured and detained pending their repatriation. 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. Salman's m…
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New York woman is convicted of Islamic State training after becoming a teen bride to a fighter
A New York woman whose father took her to Syria as a teenager and arranged her marriage to an Islamic State fighter has been convicted of receiving weapons training from the militant group.
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