Teenage brides trapped between Islamic State and its victors

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2019-04-13 | 13:28
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Teenage brides trapped between Islamic State and its victors

Rawan Aboud tried to escape Islamic State after the death of her abusive first husband, a militant killed fighting for the group. She was jailed and forced to marry another fighter. When he died, she finally fled.

 

Now she is interned with fanatic supporters of the violent jihadist group she has sought refuge from since the age of 13.

 

"I married age 12," said the Syrian girl, now 18. "My husband then brought me to Raqqa. He beat me and said I was an apostate for trying to leave."

 

Thousands of women, especially foreigners who flocked from Europe and North African countries, willingly joined Islamic State, subscribing to its brutal interpretation of Islam and marrying militants.

 

Some remain ardent supporters of its ideology and live in camps they fled to in eastern Syria which are under the control of the US-backed forces that drove IS from its final piece of territory last month.

 

But many like Aboud, married off by conservative Muslim families in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, had no choice.

 

Aboud, several Syrians and a Lebanese woman also wed as a child to a man who joined IS are now detained alongside its die-hard adherents in a guarded section of al-Hol camp.

 

 

REUTERS

 

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