By GB News (World News) | Created at 2025-01-10 09:41:26 | Updated at 2025-01-10 13:33:45
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Shamima Begum could be freed from detention in just days as Kurdish forces holding her and thousands of Isis terrorists come under attack in Syria.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Defence Force (SDF) running the detention camps has been bombarded by Turkish airstrikes and ground assaults from Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the new Syrian government, in the past 24 hours.
British filmmaker Andrew Drury, who has visited Begum six times, said she is "the closest she has ever been to getting out" after the Assad regime was toppled by Turkish-backed forces last month.
While a Kurdish-Syrian former guard warned that as Turkey's force close in on the prison camps, authorities could release the prisoners inside - including the British Isis bride.
Shamima Begum could be freed from detention within just days
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan's forces have been bombarding Kurdish holdouts in Syria
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David Lammy has firmly rejected any possibility of her return to Britain
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According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 37 people died in fighting between Turkish-backed forces and the SDF on Tuesday.
Turkish airstrikes have reportedly hit the Rojava region, where Begum is held, killing at least 12 people.
Begum, now 25, has been held in Syria since 2019 after being captured following the fall of the Isis-controlled town Baghuz.
She had her British citizenship revoked on national security grounds by ex-Home Secretary Sajid Javid after speaking out in support of terrorism.
But yesterday, Foreign Secretary David Lammy firmly rejected any possibility of her return to Britain.
Sebastian Gorka denied previous reports he would push US allies to take back Isis prisoners
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"Shamima Begum will not be coming back to the UK," he told Good Morning Britain. "It's gone right through the courts. She's not a UK national."
That came after Sebastian Gorka, Donald Trump's incoming counter-terror chief, denied previous reports he would push US allies to take back Isis prisoners.
"I will not tell Prime Minister Starmer, or any other of America's allies what they should or should not do with their own citizens," he told the Express.
Meanwhile, outgoing US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin warned that as many as 10,000 Isis fighters remain in Syrian detention camps - at least 2,000 of whom are considered "very dangerous".
