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Brooklyn Native Convicted of Receiving ISIS Weapons Training

The verdict rests on battlefield-recovered video, photos and a purported training certificate that prosecutors say strengthen cases against returned U.S. affiliates.

Halima Salman shields her face as she leaves federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026.” (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Hundreds of women who ended up in the territory controlled by the Islamic State-group married jihadist fighters before being captured and detained pending their repatriation

Overview

  • A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Halima Salman on Tuesday of receiving military-type training from the Islamic State and she faces up to 10 years in prison.
  • Prosecutors presented a video of Salman holding an AK-47, photos of her with an ISIS flag, loyalty messages and a document recovered from her husband’s cellphone that they said certified her rifle training.
  • Salman testified that she was taken to Syria as a teenager, entered an arranged marriage to an ISIS fighter at 18 and repeatedly tried to leave because escape would have been deadly.
  • Her defense argued she was a coerced victim and challenged the certificate’s authenticity, and her lawyers have asked the judge to overturn the verdict before her sentencing, which is scheduled for Feb. 2.
  • The case underscores how U.S. authorities are using battlefield and digital material to prosecute repatriated relatives of ISIS fighters and could shape future handling of hundreds held in camps in northeastern Syria.