US court sentences Kansas woman leading all-female ISIS unit to 20 years in prison
WASHINGTON (AA) – A US court has sentenced an American woman to 20 years in prison for forming and leading an all-female ISIS battalion to fight in Syria, the Justice Department announced.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, pleaded guilty in June and admitted to conspiring to provide material support or resources to “a foreign terrorist organization”.
She specifically acknowledged forming Khatiba Nusaybah in which she trained more than 100 women and girls, some as young as 10, to fight on ISIS’s behalf to defend its former capital of Raqqah in Syria, according to the department.
Khatiba Nusaybah formally began operations in February 2017 as ISIS’s territorial holdings began to collapse in Syria. Raqqah fell in October of that year.
Fluke-Ekren attempted to flee, telling someone to inform her family that she died in Syria with the intent of evading capture, according to her plea agreement. She was brought to the US in January after being held in Syria.
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