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Liam Coleman

British teen girl found in ISIS camp with son, 3, six years after going missing

A teenage girl who sparked a widespread UK search when she disappeared from her family home has reportedly been found six years later in a camp for ISIS brides in Syria.

Nasra Abukar, who now has a three-year-old son, disappeared from her home in Lewisham in 2014, and she is now believed to have been found at the Kurdish run al-Hol detention and refugee camp in northeastern Syria.

According to The Times, she was persuaded to travel to Syria and married an Isis fighter from Cardiff, with whom she had two sons, Faris and Talha.

Faris was killed in a coalition airstrike that also injured his father, but Talha, 3, remains with his mother at the detention camp.

Like Shamima Begum, the runaway Bethnal Green schoolgirl who was discovered in the same camp last year, Abukar desperately wants to be allowed to return to the UK despite having had her citizenship revoked on national security grounds.

Shamima Begum was found at the same ISIS brides camp as Nasra Abukar (James Longman/ABC News)

The camp holds around 70,000 people, most of them women and children displaced by conflict in Syria, but around 3,000 thought to be the wives of ISIS fighters.

Abukar and husband Aseel Muthana are believed to have remained with ISIS until its last piece of territory - the town of Bargouz in eastern Syria - was recaptured in March 2019.

Abukar's husband Aseel Muthana spoke exclusively to the Mirror last month (Rowan Griffiths/Daily Mirror)

Last month her husband said he had last seen Abukar when the town fell.

“We were separated at that point and she was taken to a camp," he said.

"I wrote to her and I believe the letter was passed on but I have never received a reply."

Abukar's social media posts from when ISIS still controlled large portions of Iraq and Syria reportedly advertise life under the group and celebrate its attacks abroad.

Following the attacks in Paris in November 2015, which claimed a total of 130 victims, Abukar posted the word "Paris" followed by a "crying with laughter" emoji.

Abukar's mother, Kaha, has previously said she was not particularly religious before being recruited and leaving for Syria.

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