Begum

Shamima Begum has used a BBC podcast to blame her best friend for her decision to join ISIS. Sharmeena Begum - no relation - fled the UK to join ISIS in 2014, followed by Shamima and her schoolmates Amira Abase and...

Shamima Begum has admitted she never once considered turning back as she travelled 700 miles through Turkey to join ISIS. The former London schoolgirl, who was 15 when she made the journey in 2015, tells a new BBC podcast she...

The BBC was criticised today for ‘giving terrorists a platform’ after Shamima Begum contributed to a 10-part podcast to ‘retrace her journey’.The 23-year-old, who packed mint chocolate for the trip to Syria to join the brutal death cult, says ‘I’m...

The BBC has released a 10-part podcast about Shamima Begum in which she tells her story of how she joined ISIS and about life in a refugee camp.In 2015, Begum, then 15, and her school friends Kadiza Sultana, 15,...