A US jihadi bride who was brainwashed online says she "deeply regrets" joining ISIS - and has begged to come home.

Hoda Muthana was 20 when she used her college tuition money to join ISIS in 2014, leaving her conservative family in Alabama and moving first to Raqqa in Syria where she married an Australian jihadist, the first of her husbands.

3 Hoda Muthana in her 2013 high school graduation photo. She became radicalised in the same year Credit: Hoover High School 2012 Yearbook

3 Hoda Muthana, at right in the head scarf, poses for a photo with her 11th-grade English class at Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama Credit: Hoover High School 2012 Yearbook

3 ISIS bride Shamima Begum, 15, also spoke out in the hope of returning to her home in Britain Credit: Sky News

At the time she was one of the ISIS' most vocal agitators, telling Americans to "wake up" and "spill their blood" in a series of blood-curdling Twitter posts.

Since then Muthana has lost her first two husbands in war, and is currently married to her third spouse, a Syrian.

For the past six weeks she has been living as the only American at al-Hawl Syrian refugee camp with her 18-month-old son after they were captured by Kurdish forces.

Speaking to The Guardian, Muthana described her experience with Isis as “very mind-blowing”.

“It was like a movie," said Muthana, now 24. "You read one book and think you know everything. I’m really traumatised by my experience. We starved and we literally ate grass.”

I would tell them please forgive me for being so ignorant, and I was really young and ignorant and I was 19 when I decided to leave. I believe that America gives second chances. Hoda Muthana, 24

There are clear parallels between Muthana an d jihadi Shamima Begum, who at 15 escaped from her home in East London to join ISIS.

Begum, who has just given birth to a baby boy, claims she "never did anything dangerous" and now wants to bring her baby back to the UK for better care.

Unlike Begum, Muthana has expressed regret for her actions, saying she was "very arrogant".

"In the end I didn’t have many friends left, because the more I talked about the oppression of Isis the more I lost friends," she said.

"I was brainwashed once and my friends are still brainwashed.”

Muthana has previously told how she met ISIS supporters on a secret Twitter account that led to her indoctrination back in 2013.

But now Muthana says her account was long ago taken over by other militants, and is now desperate to come home.

She told The Guardian: “I would tell them [US officials] please forgive me for being so ignorant, and I was really young and ignorant and I was 19 when I decided to leave.

"I believe that America gives second chances. I want to return and I’ll never come back to the Middle East. America can take my passport and I wouldn’t mind.”

Hoda Muthana - Timeline May 2013 - Graduates from Alabama Hoover High School. Becomes increasingly interested in Islamic religious practices Autumn 2013 - Secretly creates a Twitter account with thousands of followers, meets a number of ISIS supporters November 2014 - Tells her family she's going to Atlanta on a school trip, instead flies to Turkey and crosses into ISIS-held territory in Syria December 2014 - Marries 23-year-old Suhan Rahman, an Australian ISIS fighter also known as Abu Jihad al-Australi. March 2015 - Rahman is killed in a Jordanian airstrike 2015 - Soon after marries her second husband, a Tunisian fighter. Together they have a son, Adam January 2019 - Fled the village of Susa near Baghuz, slept in the desert with a group of ISIS exiles. Was captured by Kurdish forces who brough to Syria refugee camp al-Hawl February 2019 - Muthana says she was 'brainwashed' and begs forgiveness to return to the US







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Earlier today Donald Trump today urged other western countries to repatriate captured fighters.

He said in a tweet: "The US does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go. We do so much, and spend so much - Time for others to step up and do the job that they are so capable of doing."

Otherwise, he said, the US would be forced to release them.

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