Jury Begins Deliberations in Trial of New York Woman Accused of Receiving Military Training from ISIS

A New York jury has begun deliberations in the trial of Hala Salman, who is accused of receiving weapons training from the Islamic State group. Her lawyer told the jury that her father deceived her until she travelled to Syria, where she became the forced wife of a fighter while still a teenager.

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• The defendant, Hala Salman, is a U.S. citizen born in Brooklyn. She was 17 when her father took the family to Turkey in 2017.

  «Halima Salman, a US citizen born in Brooklyn, was 17 when her father took the family to Turkiye in 2017»

  Arab News
• According to the lawyer's account, the father put his daughter in a truck without telling her their destination, then took her into Syria, where armed men surrounded the truck.

  «put her in a van without saying where they were going and drove into Syria»

  Arab News
• The lawyer described what happened as the defendant being made, against her will, the wife of an armed fighter.

  «she became an unwilling teen bride to a militant fighter»

  Arab News
• The case is now in the jury deliberation stage at a court in New York.

  «Jury deliberates in trial of New Yorker who became a teen bride to an Islamic State fighter»

  Boston Herald • Arab News

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