Tareena Shakil: IS mother ‘regrets everything’ about Syria journey

(BBC) A woman convicted of travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State group says she “regrets everything” about it.

Tareena Shakil, from Birmingham, was jailed in 2016 when she returned to the UK after three months with IS.

The 32-year-old said she was “ashamed” of her actions and “lives with the consequences every day.”

Now released from prison, Ms Shakil has completed a de-radicalisation programme and hopes her story will serve as a warning to others.

Ms Shakil, a former healthcare worker, secretly travelled to Syria with her one-year-old son in 2014, and lived in a house with other women waiting to be married to foreign fighters.

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