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American woman convicted of getting military training from Daesh group

NEW YORK: An American woman who joined the Daesh group before being caught by anti-Daesh forces in Syria was found guilty on Tuesday of receiving military training from the jihadists. Halima Salman, 27, was one of hundreds of foreign women who went or were taken to the territory controlled by the Daesh, and who then married jihadist fighters before being captured and detained pending their repatriation. The fate of these women and their children has proven a sticking point for the Western countr