ISIS bride from UK not allowed to return to fight for citizenship

By Mike Brest

Published February 26, 2021 5:29pm ET

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ISIS bride from UK not allowed to return to fight for citizenship — Sajid Javid, Britain's Home Secretary looks towards the media following a cabinet meeting in London, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. He opposes Shamima Begum returning to the U.K. after leaving the country to join ISIS and previously refusing to return. | (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

One woman who ran away from the United Kingdom as a teenager to join the Islamic State will not be allowed back into the nation to fight for her citizenship.

The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Friday that Shamima Begum, who is 21 and ran away with two other teenage girls, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase, to Syria in 2015, will not be allowed to return to the country to appeal the revocation of her citizenship, which occurred in 2019.

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