Sharmeena Begum

Not to be confused with Shamima Begum (not a family relation) who left for Syria two months later.

Sharmeena Begum
Born1999 (age 26–27)
Bethnal Green, London, England
Alma materBethnal Green Academy, London
Parents
  • Mohammad Uddin (father)
  • Shahnaz Begum (mother)

Sharmeena Begum (born 1999) is a British woman who left the United Kingdom to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria in December 2014 and became an ISIL bride. Two months later, in February 2015, her school friends Amira Abase, Shamima Begum, and Kadiza Sultana (who collectively became known as the Bethnal Green trio) joined her in Syria. Begum is one of the youngest British teenagers to join ISIL.

Begum was tracked down by the BBC in 2023, and was living in Syria under a different identity.

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