Syria
"Their justification was that it was retaliation so I thought ‘OK, that is a fair justification’.”
"Maybe we can learn from it."
Abdul Deghayes suffered a number of stab wounds, police said.
"We do so much, and spend so much – time for others to step up and do the job that they are so capable of doing."
Begum, 19, said she could give birth "any day".
To me, Begum comes across as a a frightened, exhausted young woman, not a dangerous terrorist sympathiser – she surely deserves a chance to try to build a better life than the one she had in Syria
Hussen Abase's daughter Amira fled to Syria in 2015. She was accompanied by schoolfriends Kadiza Sultana, now believed to have been killed in an air strike, and Shamima Begum, who is in a refugee camp and asking to return to Britain. Abase said that the age of the girls "makes them vulnerable".
Shamima Begum was only 15-years-old when she left her home in London without her family’s knowledge, and fled with two friends to join the Islamic State in Syria. Four years later, Begum is hoping to return to the UK to raise her baby, due imminently.Begum is not the only British national to have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State group. The UK government must now decide how to handle the re-integration of these people, if they are even allowed back in the country.
It all started in 2015, when three girls went missing from a school in east London.
The case, highlighted by The Times, raises queries about what happens next.