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At the age of 15, Leonora Messing secretly left her home in Saxony-Anhalt. She’d planned her journey down to the last detail, traveling via Turkey to Syria. She had her heart set on marrying an IS fighter - a man she had never even met before.

Suspended sentence for German woman who joined ISIS aged 15 A German woman who joined ISIS terrorist group in Syria as a 15-year-old was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence on Wednesday but cleared of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.Judges found Leonora Messing, now 22, guilty of membership of a terrorist organization, a spokesman

A girl who ran off to Syria as a 15-year-old to join the Islamic State has left court with a two-year suspended sentence. The court in Halle, central Ge

She ultimately escaped charges of crimes against humanity, but despite being convicted of two other offences, the woman who joined ISIS in 2015 will now likely escape prison time altogether.

A German woman who joined ISIS terrorist group in Syria as a 15-year-old was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence on Wednesday but cleared of aiding

The trial of a German woman who moved to Syria as a teen to join the terror group, Daesh, has begun this week, with the charges against her consisting of human trafficking and the aiding and abetting ...

Leonora Messing was just 15 when she fled her home in Sangerhausen, Germany, to join the terror group in Syria before wedding jihadi Martin Lemke, also known as Nihad Abu Yasir.

A German woman who moved to Syria as a 15-year-old to join the Islamic State group went on trial on Tuesday accused of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity. Leonora Messing, now aged 22, is in the dock in the eastern German city of Halle on suspicion that she and her IS husband enslaved a […]

Trial begins of 22-year-old German woman who joined IS group in Syria

A German woman who moved to Syria as a 15-year-old to join the Islamic State group went on trial accused of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.