Shamima Begum has admitted that she regrets bringing her children up in the deadly terror group Islamic State — after burying three babies in just five months.
Speaking for the first time since the death of newborn Jarrah, the teen runaway of Bangladeshi origin ssaid she was "brainwashed" by online groomers and militants, reports the Evening Standard.
The 19-year-old's British citizenship was stripped amid a fierce national row over her request to come back to the UK.
The former Bethnal Green schoolgirl fled to join IS aged 15 and had lost two children prior to the death of her third.
"Since I left Baghouz I really regretted everything I did, and I feel like I want to go back to the UK for a second chance to start my life over again,” she told the Times.
She told the paper she had been brainwashed while knowing little about the truths of her religion, and said the terror group was not a place to have children.
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The teen was moved away from a refugee camp near Baghouz due to apparent risk to her safety from others.
Now staying in al-Roj at a smaller camp with around 600 people, officials say Shamima is emerging from her radicalised state, reports The Times.
In previous interviews, in which she made comments for which she was heavily criticized, Shamima defended the 2017 Manchester Arena terrorist attack and said "a lot of people should have sympathy for me."
However, in her latest interview she said at the time she was "still in the brainwashed mentality."
She spoke of her regret that her relationship with her family was strained due to her actions and claimed she hoped she could return to rectify it.
Shamima was one of three young women who fled the UK for Syria in 2015.
When she first pleaded for her return, the British Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Shamima of her citizenship on advice she qualified for Bangladeshi citizenship through her mother.
She told the Times she has accepted she will stay in a Syrian refugee camp for the foreseeable future and will attempt to make the country her "second home."
