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Jonathan Hall KC said failing to permit her to return could lead the UK to be an ‘outlier’ in Europe.

Two senior regional members of the Islamic State group have been killed in Afghanistan in recent weeks during separate raids in Kabul

Government terrorism laws reviewer Jonathan Hall KC joins growing number of voices opposing exclusion

British women who join the Islamic State should be allowed home, Jonathan Hall KC says

Shamima Begum has lost her legal challenge over the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship. Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State (IS) in February 2015. Her British citizenship was revoked on national security…

Human rights lawyer Shoaib M Khan said the ruling was "disappointing" as Shamima Begum is still stuck in a camp in northern Syria, following the news that she would not be able to get British citizenship back

In recent days, the Islamic State group has carried out its deadliest attacks in more than year, killing dozens of civilians and security officers in the deserts of central Syria

Andrew Drury, 56, met Begum six times between 2021 and 2022, forming a connection so close the pair swapped WhatsApp messages and she told him of her mental health struggles

Ms Begum’s challenge to the decision to strip her of her British citizenship was dismissed on Wednesday.