A U.S. citizen and former Brooklyn resident has been convicted by a federal jury of receiving military-type training from the ISIS terrorist group in Syria.
Halima Salman received training from the Nusaybah Katiba, a military battalion composed of female ISIS members, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in an Oct. 27 statement. Salman was convicted on Tuesday by a federal jury in Brooklyn following a seven-day trial.
In 2016, Salman’s parents traveled with her and eight of her siblings from the United States to a Syrian territory under the control of ISIS. In 2017, Salman, 18 years old at the time, married an ISIS fighter in Syria, after which she sought out military-type training, the DOJ said….