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A former Irish soldier who became an ISIS bride in Syria has begged to be rescued from a detention camp where hundreds of women and children are being held.

Lisa Smith, 37, told a journalist at the al-Hol camp that she is "already in prison" while discussing the prospect of being prosecuted if she returns to Ireland.

Holding her two-year-old daughter and just weeks after saying ISIS' reign wasn't finished, the Muslim convert, wearing a niqab, said: "I want to go home."

Smith was captured by US-backed Kurdish forces after fleeing the besieged town of Baghuz where ISIS made its desperate last stand before falling to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Irish Mirror reports.

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Smith told a journalist from CNN's Connect the World that she went to Syria as an ISIS bride and is now a widow with a two-year-old daughter.

The former soldier, from Dundalk, Co Louth, spoke of her desperation to leave the al-Hol camp, where hundreds of ISIS brides and children are being held.

Smith said: "I think that people should just realise that not all the people here are terrorists.

"I want to go home."

The journalist pointed out that Smith could be prosecuted and jailed if she returns to Ireland.

Smith responded: "I know they’d strip me of my passport and I wouldn’t travel and I’d be watched, but prisons?

"I don’t know.

"I’m already in prison.”

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Smith and her child are both Irish citizens.

They are being held at the camp where British ISIS bride Shamima Begum, 19, was being held until the death of her newborn son. Her UK citizenship has been revoked.

Officials from the Defence Forces and the Department of Foreign Affairs met over the weekend to discuss bringing Smith home.

She once served as a flight attendant in the Air Corps who served politicians such as then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on the Government jet.

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In a recent interview with ITV News, Smith claimed to be British, but it then emerged she was a former Irish soldier.

She told ITV she converted to Islam seven years ago and was lured to Syria by ISIS propaganda.

She claimed to be British, but the reporter who interviewed her said she "spoke with an Irish accent".

Smith, who also spoke Arabic in the interview, said: "You come, you see the propaganda, you want Islam, you want to come and live in a Muslim country and environment.

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"No music, no smoking, no fighting, no drinking, no prostitution... you want a clean life like this, this is what you want, but sometimes it is not like this."

She claimed she went to Syria alone and married a British man she met in the Middle Eastern country.

She claimed her husband was killed about two months ago.

Asked if ISIS' reign of terror is finished, she said: "Not over yet. Not over yet."

US-backed forces announced the capture of ISIS last territory in Baghuz, or Baghouz, on Saturday, eradicating the terror group's self-proclaimed "caliphate".

However, ISIS jihadists in Syria and Iraq, and sleeper cells around the world remain a threat.