NYC woman who became ISIS teen bride faces decade in prison as shes found guilty of training with terror group

A New York City native who became an ISIS bride at just 18 faces up to a decade in federal prison after being found guilty Tuesday of training with the ruthless terror group.Halima Salman, now 27, who had been accused of undergoing weapons training with the Islamic State in Syria, was convicted by a Brooklyn federal jury following three days of deliberations and a weeklong trial.The case marked the first time that a woman faced trial in the US on charges of joining ISIS.“With today’s verdict, Salman is held accountable for joining forces with a terrorist organization,” said Joseph Nocella Jr., US attorney for the Eastern District of New York.“ISIS ravaged Syria and caused havoc across the globe; our Office will continue to prosecute those who supported its murderous reign,” he said in a statement.The Brooklyn-born Salman testified in her own defense that her father had forced her to marry a militant fighter, Abu Ali, when she was 18 after he moved the family to ISIS-controlled territory in 2016.Salman told jurors that her father, an ISIS supporter killed in a 2018 airstrike, had moved the family — including her mother and eight siblings — first to his home country of Turkey before tricking them into traveling into the terror group’s clutches in Syria.She testified that she spent two years in ISIS territory and then five years in a war camp run by the Kurdish regime that dismantled the terror group with the help of the US.Salman was arrested in 2024 at JFK Airport in Queens after she and nine other members of her family were repatriated in a US government effort to bring back American citizens held in the detention centers.She has been living with relatives in New Hampshire while out on $500,000 bond, and faces a maximum 10-year sentence on her conviction of knowingly receiving military training from a terrorist organization.Prosecutors argued that Salman willingly agreed during her marriage to train with Nusaybah Katiba, a female-only ISIS battalion...