NYC native who became ISIS teen bride faces decade in prison after she's found guilty

Key Points:

• Halima Salman, a New York City native and former ISIS bride, was convicted by a Brooklyn federal jury of receiving military training from ISIS and faces up to 10 years in prison, marking the first US trial of a woman charged with joining the terror group.
• Salman testified that her father forced her to marry an ISIS fighter and moved the family from Turkey into ISIS-controlled Syria, where she lived for two years before spending five years in a Kurdish-run war camp after the group's defeat.
• Prosecutors presented evidence including footage of Salman with an AK-47, an ISIS training document, and selfies with the terror group's flag, while her defense challenged the authenticity of the training certificate and argued she was coerced and innocent.
• Salman was arrested in 2024 after being repatriated to the US with family members from detention centers, and has been living on bond in New Hampshire pending sentencing.
• Her ex-husband, an ISIS militant, is reportedly imprisoned in Iraq, and the case highlights ongoing US efforts to prosecute individuals who supported ISIS.