Sharmeena Begum
Missing British jihadist (disappeared 2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with the unrelated Shamima Begum who left for Syria two months later.
Sharmeena Begum (born 1999) is a jihadi bride who left the United Kingdom to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in December 2014. Two months later, in February 2015, her school friends Amira Abase, Shamima Begum, and Kadiza Sultana (who collectively became known as the Bethnal Green trio) joined her in occupied Syria. Begum is one of the youngest British teenagers to join ISIL.
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Born | 1999 (age 24ā25) Bethnal Green, London, England |
Alma mater | Bethnal Green Academy, London |
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In February 2019, she was described as missing.[1] Begum was tracked down by the BBC in 2023, and is living in Syria under a different identity.[2]