re: UK teen girl who joined the Islamic State killed by Russian airstrike

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believed that Sultana was killed in an airstrike in May while she was planning to flee.

Akunjee said that Sultana had become disillusioned with IS over the last year and wanted to come home. "I think she found out pretty quickly that the propaganda doesn't match up with the reality," he said. Last July, the Telegraph reported that the the girls had been kept under close surveillance in a compound by IS jihadis. They were reportedly married off to fighters shortly after they arrived, although two became widows.

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