American ISIS brides who denounced US now pleading to come home

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Two American women are trying to return home to North America after realizing they don’t want to be a part of the Islamic State anymore.

More than four years ago, Hoda Muthana, then a college student in Alabama, bought a plane ticket to Turkey with her tuition money and was smuggled into the caliphate in Syria. She’s been married to three ISIS fighters over the years and gave birth to a son, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

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