The baby of Shamima Begum, a teenager who left London to join the Islamic State ...
FILE PHOTO: Renu Begum, sister of teenage British girl Shamima Begum, holds a photo of her sister as she makes an appeal for her to return home at Scotland Yard, in London, Britain February 22, 2015. REUTERS/Laura Lean/Pool
Begum, whose two older children had also previously died, was stripped of her British citizenship last month on security grounds after she was discovered in a detention camp in Syria. SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali said the child had died. Shamima has said in media interviews her baby son was called Jarrah.
The family’s lawyer said earlier on Friday there were strong but as yet unconfirmed reports that Begum’s infant son had died.
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