JIHADI BRIDES FLEE BEFORE EXTREMISTS’ LAST STAND

Foreign jihadi brides are returning home after being widowed, or being sent away by husbands preparing to make a final stand with ISIL. As many as 10 British women and their children have left in recent months and a couple have made it back to the U.K., according to counter-terrorism sources and a former jihadi bride. More than 50 British women are estimated to have headed to Iraq and Syria. . But as ISIL has lost much of its territory, life has become more difficult. One German ISIL bride said: “When your husband is dead, or the situation is dangerous, the women are brought to houses where they live all together. It’s like being a chicken in a cage. Women are treated very badly, they are like slaves, with no freedom to even leave the house.”