WASHINGTON: An American woman who grew up on a farm in Kansas and joined the Islamic State in Syria, where she led an all-female military battalion, is to be sentenced Tuesday for providing support to a foreign terrorist group. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to terror charges in June in a US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. Born Allison Brooks, she grew up in a “loving and stable home” in Overbrook, Kansas, and was considered a “gifted” student, the US attorney said. She dropped out of high school in her sophomore year, however, and married a local man named Fluke, with whom she had two children. Her son from that marriage testified anonymously about years of abuse inflicted on him and his siblings by their mother.

Source: Libya Today October 31, 2022 05:33 UTC