Sharmeena Begum is a jihadi bride who left the United Kingdom to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in December 2014. Two months later, in February 2015, her school friends Amira Abase, Shamima Begum, and Kadiza Sultana joined her in occupied Syria. Begum is one of the youngest British teenagers to join ISIL.
Main entrance of Mulberry Academy Shoreditch, formerly known as Bethnal Green Academy
The East London Mosque, where Begum reportedly met the Sisters Forum
Shamima Begum is a British-born woman who entered Syria to join the ISIS terrorist group at the age of 15 and was consequently stripped of UK citizenship. She lives in al-Roj detention camp in Syria.
The main entrance of Mulberry Academy Shoreditch, known at the time of Begum's disappearance as Bethnal Green Academy