Allison Fluke-Ekren was turned over to the FBI on Friday after being taken into custody in Syria.
The Old Wall of Raqqa on July 5, 2017, in Raqqa, Syria.
in Kansas' Lawrence Journal-World newspaper includes an interview with her about homeschooling her children. She and her family first moved to Egypt in 2008, federal prosecutors said in a motion filed Friday, and over the next several years, they sometimes traveled back to the US. A 2008 blog post shows the couple and their four children visiting the pyramids.
Instead, she went on to translate speeches by ISIS leaders and also began training women and children to use weapons including automatic AK-47s and suicide belts, the source said. Other sources described weapons in her home, and one person said they'd seen her 5 or 6-year-old child with a machine gun.