FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Amira abase - The Untold Story

ISIS bride Shamima Begum 'living on £100-a-week donations from London relatives' while stuck in Syrian camp

The former Bethnal Green schoolgirl, who joined Islamic State as a teenager a decade ago, is fighting to restore her British citizenship from ‘volatile’ camp

Evening Standard · Sep 25, 2025

Taxpayers Footing ISIS Bride's £250,000 Legal Fees As She Tries To Return To UK

Shamima Begum, who left the UK to join the ISIS, lost another appeal against the UK government's decision to strip her of her British citizenship.

International Business Times UK · Mar 28, 2024

The Shamima Begum ruling proves it: some UK citizens are less equal than others

Any British person who has a foreign-born parent will feel their status is more precarious, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024

Shamima Begum was 'smuggled into Syria to join IS by Canadian double agent'

Ms Begum ran away from her home in east London aged 15 with Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase to become a member of militant group Islamic State in 2015.

Daily Record · Sep 1, 2022

Shamima Begum’s friends: what happened to Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana?

Begum is a British-born woman who entered Syria to join the terror group IS at the age of 15. But who are the two friends she left with?

Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2022

Shamima Begum was ‘smuggled into Syria by Canadian spy’

Shamima Begum says she wanted to be brought back to the UK to face charges

Manchester Evening News · Aug 31, 2022

Shamima Begum ‘smuggled into Syria by Western spy’

Shamima Begum was smuggled into Syria by a human trafficker also working as a spy for Canada, according to explosive new claims in a book.

Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2022

Shamima Begum ‘smuggled to Syria by Canadian spy’

Ms Begum fled her east London home for Syria as a 15-year-old schoolgirl with her two friends in 2015.

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2022

What happened to the two teenage girls who fled UK with Shamima Begum to join ISIS?

Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana left school in Bethnal Green for the February half term break eight years ago but never returned. The year 10 straight-A students left their families to join ISIS

Daily Mirror · Feb 10, 2022