18 Facts About Sharmeena Begum

Sharmeena Begum was born on 1999 and is a jihadi bride who left the United Kingdom to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in December 2014.

Sharmeena Begum is one of the youngest British teenagers to join ISIL.

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

Sharmeena Begum was born to Shahnaz Sharmeena Begum and Mohammad Uddin, who are of Bangladeshi origin.

Sharmeena Begum was raised by her mother until her father joined them in the UK in 2007.

Sharmeena Begum's father remarried in September 2014, and Begum left for Syria in December of that year.

Sharmeena Begum's father said that her behaviour had changed; she stopped listening to Western music and began going to her room to pray, but he assumed that she was grieving about her mother's death.

Sharmeena Begum was friends with Amira Abase, Shamima Begum and Kadiza Sultana, who left for Syria few months later.

Sharmeena Begum became increasingly interested in religious themes after her mother died, although her family had previously described her as non-religious.

Sharmeena Begum is said to have begun praying, and stopped listening to Western music.

Sharmeena Begum did not get along with her new stepmother, and had gone to live with one of her grandmothers.

Sharmeena Begum used her grandmother's passport for her travels, telling her that she needed to borrow the passport for her schoolwork.

Sharmeena Begum was joined two months after her departure by her three friends from Bethnal Green Academy, who had made their way to Syria via Turkey.

Sharmeena Begum reportedly married a Bosnian fighter who was later killed.

Shamima Sharmeena Begum reported last seeing her in Baghuz in June 2018.

Parents of fellow students said that they were unaware that Sharmeena Begum had travelled to Islamic State territory.

Sharmeena Begum's father criticised the police for ignoring his concerns that her friends might follow her example.

Dick denied that Sharmeena Begum was travelling on the same plane as another teenage recruit who was prevented from travelling.