'Islamic State bride' loses appeal against the removal of her UK citizenship
A woman who travelled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group lost her appeal Friday against the British government's decision to revoke her UK citizenship. Shamima Begum, who is now 24, was 15 when she and two other girls fled from London in February 2015 to join the jihadist group at the time when its online recruitment program was luring many impressionable young people to its self-proclaimed caliphate. Begum married a Dutch man fighting for the Islamic State and had three children, all of whom died. Authorities withdrew her British citizenship in 2019 soon after she surfaced...