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Asharq Al-Awsat
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German Woman Faces ISIS-linked Terror Charges

German special police forces in Hildesheim, Germany, March 14, 2017. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Federal prosecutors said Friday that a 32-year-old German woman faces terrorism charges for joining ISIS in Syria, the Associated Press reported.

Carla-Josephine S., whose last name wasn't released for privacy reasons, is also charged with child endangerment resulting in death and other offenses, prosecutors said Friday.

She's accused of taking her three children to Syria in 2015.

AP quoted prosecutors as saying that she joined ISIS and lived in one of their facilities.

Her children underwent ISIS ideological indoctrination, and her son took paramilitary training before he was killed in 2018 when their compound was bombed.

Unable to convince her husband to join her, S. in 2016 married an ISIS militant from Somalia and took paramilitary training herself.

She was arrested upon her return to Germany in April. Prosecutors wouldn't give any details about her daughters.

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