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One of three former schoolgirls who made headlines when they fled Britain in 2015 to join Islamic State has asked to return home - but insists she has no regrets.
Shamima Begum was just 15 when she ran away from her east London home to travel to Syria and marry an Isis fighter. She is now 19, nine months’ pregnant and living in a Syrian refugee camp, having left Baghuz - the last Syrian territory held by the terrorist group - two weeks ago, she told
The Times.
“I don’t regret coming here,” she said. “I’m not the same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl who ran away from Bethnal Green four years ago.”
However, she also told the newspaper: “The caliphate is over. There was so much oppression and corruption that I don’t think they deserved victory. I know what everyone at home thinks of me as I have read all that was written about me online.
“But I just want to come home to have my child. That’s all I want right now. I’ll do anything required just to be able to come home and live quietly with my child.”
The heavily pregnant teenager claims to have had two other children, but says both died from sickness and malnutrition.
