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Danya Bazaraa

ISIS bride Shamima Begum says she 'regrets everything' - claiming she was 'brainwashed'

Shamima Begum has said she regrets everything - including having children in Syria, according to a new interview.

The London schoolgirl who fled to become an Islamic State bride told The Times she regrets everything she did and wants to come back to the UK to start again.

She reportedly said she was brainwashed and actually knew little about Islam.

"Since I left Baghuz I really regretted everything I did and I feel like I want to go back to the UK for a second chance to start my life over again," she told The Times, in her first interview since the death of her son Jarrah. 

"I was brainwashed.

"I came here believing everything that I had been told, while knowing little about the truths of my religion."

15-year-old Amira Abase, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Shamima Begum, 15, at Gatwick airport in February 2015 (PA)

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She added: "I do regret having children in the caliphate."

The 19-year-old had hoped to raise her third child in the UK before the newborn's death from a lung infection on March 8.

Shamima Begum (Press Association)

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Now her son lies in an unmarked grave just beyond al-Roj refugee camp where she was moved a week before his death, the Mirror reports.

She also claims she has to be escorted by guards to visit the grave where she reads verses from the Qu'ran.

Shamima Begum, now 19, was 15 when she left her home in Bethnal Green, East London to travel to Syria to support the terror group (PA)

Shamima reportedly said she had thought the caliphate would have been a place to safely raise kids but now she knows it was not a place for a family.

Shamima, whose first two children also died, still hopes she will one day return to the UK.

But she accepts that she may have to make a home in her refugee camp, with the emotional support of women around her.

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