Emerging from Islamic State's last enclave in eastern Syria, a widow of one...
'I only saw America killing": an IS widow's view of Syria's warNEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria - Emerging from Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria, a widow of one of the group’s fighters made no effort to hide her enmity toward the United States as she handed herself over to U.S.-backed Syrian forces besieging the area.
“...They used to say we made the world scared, honestly I did not see this. I did not see that we terrorized the world.” Founded in 2014, the group’s self-styled caliphate drew followers from across the world and many, like Um Walaa, remain radicalized, their pride in having become adherents undimmed.
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