Shamima Begum’s hopes of returning to the UK have been “bolstered” by the fall of Bashar al-Assad, her lawyer has told The Telegraph.
Begum, one of three schoolgirls who travelled to Syria in 2015 to join Islamic State, has been languishing in a detention camp in north-eastern Syria for at least five years.
Now aged 25, she has lodged a series of legal claims in the UK courts in an attempt to return but has lost on grounds of national security and the threat posed to the British public.
