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Jury deliberates in trial of New Yorker who became a teen bride to an Islamic State fighter

Jury deliberates in trial of New Yorker who became a teen bride to an Islamic State fighter
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A New York woman accused of receiving weapons training from the Islamic State group was tricked by her father into traveling to Syria, where she became an unwilling teen bride to a militant fighter, her lawyer told a jury Thursday. Halima Salman, a U.S. citizen born in Brooklyn, was 17 when her f...

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