Name | Birth year | Date of volunteering | Date of defection | Home country | Notes |
Fauzia Khamal Bacha | | 2014 | | Singapore |
- Travelled from Melbourne, Australia to Syria, with her husband and four children, in 2014.
- Bacha, her husband Yasin Rizvic, and their eldest son, were killed in Syria.
- Their three surviving children, aged 6 to 12, and all Australian citizens, were repatriated on June 24, 2019.
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Emilie Konig | 1984 | 2012 | | France | Was the subject of a 2012 documentary. |
Aqsa Mahmood | | 2013 | | United Kingdom | Suspected of playing a role in recruiting the four students from Bethnal Green. |
Daniela Greene | 1980 | 2014 | 2014 | United States | Greene, a contract linguist with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had been assigned to communicate with Denis Cuspert, a German ISIL recruiter, as part of a covert investigation of his activities. During these conversations, Greene fell in love with Cuspert and travelled to occupied Syria to marry him. Disenchanted within weeks, Greene deserted both husband and Daesh. Upon return to the United States, she was charged with lying to the FBI, later serving a two-year sentence. |
Shima Essanoor | 1992 | 2014 | 2018 | United Kingdom | Introduced to her husband, Sadjo Ture, an associate of "Jihadi John", by her best friend, Reema Iqbal. |
Hoda Muthana | 1994 | 2014 | | United States | Started making inflammatory tweets after her first husband was killed in action. |
Salma Halane | 1998 | 2014 | | United Kingdom | Twin sister of Zahra Halane, active in recruiting more volunteers after her arrival in Daesh territory. |
Zahra Halane | 1998 | 2014 | | United Kingdom | Twin sister of Salma Halane, active in recruiting more volunteers after her arrival in Daesh territory. |
Tara Nettleton | 1983 | 2013 | | Australia | Was able to travel to Daesh territory with her husband, Khaled Sharrouf, even though his passport had been cancelled due to an earlier conviction for terrorism. The couple brought their children with them. Nettleton died in 2015 from appendicitis. Sharrouf and two of their five children died from the same drone attack in 2017. |
Zaynab Sharrouf | 2001 | 2013 | | Australia | Brought to Daesh territory by her parents Tara Nettleton and Khaled Sharrouf at the age of thirteen, at which age she was married to Mohammed Elomar, a jihadi fighter and her father's best friend. On June 24, 2019, it was reported she had been repatriated to Australia, also rescued with her two children, age 2 and 3. |
Zehra Duman | 1993 | 2014 | | Australia | Served as a recruiter following her arrival in Daesh territory. |
Shams | | 2015 | | Malaysia | Shams is a medical doctor. |
Kimberly Gwen Polman | | | | Canada-United States | Describes first trying to defect after being in Daesh for a year, only to be captured, imprisoned, tortured, and raped. |
Reema Iqbal | 1990 | 2013 | | United Kingdom | "The security services came to speak to me and I was honest, I told them my whole story so now it's up to them to judge." Stripped of UK citizenship in early March, 2019. |
Zara Iqbal | 1992 | 2013 | | United Kingdom | Stripped of UK citizenship in early March, 2019. |
Natalie Bracht | | 2013 | | United Kingdom | Reported to have been an associate of Zara Iqbal, Reema Iqbal, Ruzina Khanam, and Maylbongwe Sibanda. |
Ruzina Khanam | | 2013 | | United Kingdom | Reported to have been an associate of Zara Iqbal, Reema Iqbal, Natalie Bracht, and Maylbongwe Sibanda. |
Maylbongwe Sibanda | | 2013 | | United Kingdom | Reported to have been an associate of Zara Iqbal, Reema Iqbal, Natalie Bracht, and Ruzina Khanam. |
Leonora Messing | | | | Germany | Reported to have wed a jihadi at just 15 years old. |
Hayat Boumeddiene | 1988 | 2015 | | France | May have been killed in Syria, early in 2019. |
Shamima Begum | 2001 | 2015 | | United Kingdom | One of four young women from her high school to volunteer. |
Amira Abase | 2001 | 2015 | | United Kingdom | In February 2019 she was described as "missing". |
Kadiza Sultana | 2000 | 2015 | | United Kingdom | Died. |
Nassima Begum | | 2012 | | United Kingdom | Said she had no choice when her husband moved their family to Syria in 2012. |
Sharmeena Begum | 1999 | 2014 | | United Kingdom | In February 2019 she was described as "missing". |
Sally Jones | 1968 | 2013 | 2017 | United Kingdom | "Reportedly placed on a special-forces kill list after threatening Queen Elizabeth II". Reported to be trying to return to Britain in April, 2017. Reported killed later in 2017. |
Fatiha Mejjati | 1961 | 2014 | | Morocco | Commanded "the Islamic State's Al-Khansaa Brigade, an all-female detachment that polices the group's strictures against wearing makeup or showing bare skin." |
Linda Wenzel | 2001 | 2016 | 2017 | Germany | |
"ISIL wife Sanna" | 1972 | 2014–2015 | | Finland | A Finnish woman, called "ISIL wife Sanna" by Finnish media, emigrated from Kotka, Finland, to an ISIL-controlled area in Syria with her Moroccan husband. She had converted to Islam in 2004–2005, and she is accompanied by her four underage children, of whom the eldest, a daughter born in 2005–2006, was married in Syria. During the fall of ISIL in 2019, Sanna was interviewed by CNN near the Iraqi border in eastern Syria., she was in a refugee camp and wanted to return to Finland. After the interview was published on 6 March 2019, Sanna's story was widely covered by Finnish media, starting a public discussion in Finland on possible return of Finnish citizens who emigrated to the ISIL war zone in Iraq and Syria. According to the Finnish Security Intelligence Service, some 80 identified Finnish citizens have travelled to the area; about 20 of them have died and around 20 have returned. |
Shayma Assaad | | | 2019 | Australia | Was pregnant when she made her way to the Al-Hawl refugee camp in 2019. |
Kirsty Rosse-Emile | 1995 | 2014 | 2019 | Australia | Was pregnant when she made her way to the Al-Hawl refugee camp in 2019. Made provocative social media posts. |
Janai Safar | 1996 | 2015 | 2017 | Australia | Unlike many other Brides, Safar does not want to be repatriated. Has denied that her husband was a senior Daesh official. Her family disputes she professed continued support for Daesh. |
Aylam | | 2015 | 2017 | Australia | Cousin and travelling companion to Janai Safar. |
Lisa Smith | | | | Ireland | Formerly a soldier in the Irish army. Irish security officials believe she was not an active member of Daesh and was no more than a sympathizer. |
Dullel Kassab | | 2014 | | Australia | Her father says she only travelled to Daesh-occupied Syria to find out what happened to her late husband. Her family claims that once she arrived in Daesh territory, she was forced into marriage with a jihadi fighter. Once married to a jihadi fighter, she made social media posts that seemed to support the Daesh regime. She has criticied Daesh's inability to provide health care, including pre-natal and obstetrics care. |
Lenora Lemke | 2000 | 2016 | 2019 | Germany | Bore two children in Syria and believed that she would be repatriated to Germany. |
Nûh Suwaidi | 1995 | | | Germany | Moved to ISIS territory with her husband, and bore three children there. Claims her husband made all their decisions, and did not know where they were living. |
Nora Camali | | | | | - |
Mariam Dabboussy | 1992 | 2015 | | Australia | Dabboussy says her husband tricked her into traveling to the Turkish-Syrian border with a claim they were going to help one of his relatives escape Syria, only to force her to cross the border, at gunpoint. |
Nesrine Zahab | | | | Australia | Claims she was tricked into Daesh territory when she thought she was merely delivering emergency food supplies to the border. |
Zara Ahmed | | | | Australia | Ahmed said refugee women who remain radicalized are murdering other camp occupants they see as apostates. |
Zahra Ahmad | | | | Australia | Traveled to Syria with her extended family, and became Muhammad Zahab's second wife. |