Isis Briton Shamima Begum pleads to return to UK after giving birth

Nineteen-year-old who fled UK in 2015 asks for sympathy day after her son’s birth

A teenager who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State has called on people in the UK to have sympathy for her, the day after giving birth to a boy in a refugee camp.

Shamima Begum, 19, who left the UK with two school friends in 2015, spoke to the Times while heavily pregnant earlier this week from the al-Hawl refugee camp in north-eastern Syria. She said she was desperate to come back to the UK.

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