British schoolgirl "wants to go home"

One of the three schoolgirls who left East London in 2015 to join the Islamic State group states that she did not regrets but wants to go back to the UK.

In an interview with The Times, 19-year-old Shamima Begum today spoke of "decapitated heads" in bins – but said it "did not bother her."

Speaking of a camp in Syria, she said that she was nine months pregnant and that she wanted to go home for the sake of her baby.

She said that she had two other babies who had died.

She also explained how one of her two clbadmates who had left the UK with her had died as a result of a bomb attack. The fate of the third girl is not clear.

"It was like a normal life"

Begum and Amira Abase, students of Bethnal Green Academy, were each 15 years old, while Kadiza Sultana 16 when they left the UK in February 2015.

They took the plane from Gatwick Airport to Turkey after announcing to their parents that they were leaving for the day. They then entered Syria.

Ms. Begum said that she had escaped from Baghuz – the last territory of the group in eastern Syria – and is now part of the 39,000 people housed in a camp located in the north of Syria.

Ms. Begum asked Times reporter Anthony Loyd whether her life experience in the Raqqa stronghold during the SI era had lived up to her aspirations. She replied: "Yes, propaganda videos – it's a normal life.

"From time to time, there are bombs and stuff, but other than that …"

But Ms. Begum said that "the oppression" had been a "shock" and that she felt that the "caliphate" of the IS was over.

"I do not have much hope, they are getting smaller," she said. "And there is so much oppression and corruption that I do not think they deserve the win." She seemed to confirm the information that she had married while she was in prison. Syria, and mentioned that her husband had been detained in a prison where men were tortured.

A lawyer in Kadiza Sultana's family said in 2016 that she was reportedly killed during a Russian air strike.

Ms. Begum told The Times that her friend had died in a bomb attack on a house where "secret things" were going on in hiding.

She added, "I never thought it would happen. first, I was in denial. Because I always thought that if we were killed, we would be together. "

& # 39; Afraid that this baby will get sick & # 39;

Ms. Begum said that the loss of two children "was a shock, it came out of nowhere, it was so difficult."

Like a result she was "really overprotective" of her future child.

"I'm afraid this baby is sick in this camp," she said. "That's why I really want to go back to Britain because I know everything will be taken care of – at least from a health point of view."

She said that she should give birth "any day now".

"When I arrived here [to the camp] the bus ride was really horrible and very hot, so I thought that my contractions had started and that I was bleeding, so they took me to the hospital. I spent five days in the hospital and then they brought me back. "

ISIS lost control of most of the invaded territory, including its strongholds of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria.

However, fighting continues in northeastern Syria, where Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has captured dozens of foreign fighters in recent weeks.