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On this day last year three schoolgirls from east London boarded a flight to Istanbul during their half-term break.

Unknown to her families, Amira Abase, Shamima Begum, both then aged 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, had fled the UK to start a new life in Syria under the sickening regime of ISIS.

Since then, an estimated 40 women have fled the safety of the UK to join the murderous ranks of Da'esh - where brutal executions, poverty, and violent death are a day-to-day reality.

According to security services, about 600 British Muslims have joined IS in Syria – and about 60 of them are young women.

Girls are being sold a new life fighting for freedom and for Allah.

But instead they are controlled, have to spend most of their time at home and are forced to wear two black gowns to hide their body shape as well as black gloves and black veils.

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After marrying IS fighters, many of the girls are reportedly beaten and abused by their husbands.

Dozens more British girls and women fled to Syria in 2015 - a rise of 30 per cent on the previous year.

Counter-terror cops said they were “deeply concerned” by the figures as many women were unaware that they will probably never be able to return home.

These are just some of the jihadi brides who abandoned Britain for the Caliphate.

Aqsa Mahmood

British Jihadi bride Aqsa Mahmood wrote a suitcase checklist for schoolgirls wanting to join Islamic State fanatics.

The 21-year-old left her family home in Glasgow to start a new life with the terrorist group

The former private schoolgirl said: “Bring good quality undergarments, bras and underwear.

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“You’ll also want to bring clothes for both summer and winter that you can maybe wear around your husband as well, maybe things that aren’t so appropriate around sisters, for example short dresses.”

Mahmood, who left Scotland in November 2013, informed her family of her plan as she stood at the border of Turkey waiting to enter Syria.

The ex-Glasgow University student has been added to a United Nations list which subjects her to a global asset freeze and travel ban.

She has been accused of being one of the main recruiters of females for the terror group, using social networks such as Twitter, Tumblr and encrypted app Surespot to lure them.

It’s thought Mahmood is a leader in an all-female militia who patrol the streets of IS stronghold Raqqa.

They are armed with automatic weapons and monitor the behaviour of women, punishing them if they behave in a way that is considered un-Islamic.

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In the past, she has urged Muslim men and women unable to fight in Syria to commit terrorist atrocities at home instead.

She’s also praised the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in London, the Boston Marathon bombing and the shooting of soldiers in Texas.

Last September her parents Muzaffar, 51, and Khalida, 43, made an emotional plea for her to return .

They revealed how she’d turned into a “bedroom radical” and accused her of betraying the family.

Salma and Zahra Halane

Twins Salma and Zahra Halane are believed to have fled to the strife-hit region from their Manchester home in July 2014 aged just 17 after being radicalised online by their brother Ahmed.

Zahra urged family members to sign up as "future mujaheddin", or holy warriors, it was claimed.

"We might seem evil to you, but we will all be happy in jannah (the afterlife)," she added.

The pair have reportedly become key recruiters for the terror group.

They are said to be embarking on an online grooming campaign which promises young girls a “brave and strong husband”.

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Messages from the sisters are usually sent over Twitter and Instagram, according to a report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

They claim girls will be protected from sexual objectification by the extremist organisation’s version of Sharia law.

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Ahmed Halane, from Manchester, went to Somalia in September 2013, where he is thought to have joined the terrorist group al-Shabaab.

He is currently in Copenhagen, banned from returning to the UK.

The girls are reported to have become even more extreme in their views since their militant husbands were killed during fighting .

Experts said ISIS brides are under pressure to revel in their status as widows , while Dabiq, the official ISIS magazine, states girls should not to return to their countries of origin after being widowed.

Shamima Begum, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase

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Two of the three east London schoolgirls who fled to Syria to join Islamic State have married men approved by sadistic terror chiefs, it has been revealed.

In February Shamima Begum, 15, Amira Abase, 15 and Kadiza Sultana, 16, disappeared from their Bethnal Green homes and flew to Turkey, before crossing the border into war-torn Syria.

They were believed to have been groomed by the brutal regime over social media before making the move to become so-called "jihadi-brides".

Now two of the teenagers, who are not being identified at the request of the families, are understood to have wed after getting approval from terror leaders.

The gifted teenagers had been students at the Bethnal Green academy in east London before they plotted their move to Syria on February 17.

They went unchallenged as they took a flight from Gatwick to Turkey , which borders Syria, then crossed the border and entered ISIS-controlled land in Syria a few days later.

Tasnime Akunjee, a lawyer representing two of the girls, said they have lost contact with the teenagers

“The last message from the girls was a very short one, saying that bombs were going off fairly close and that communications were likely to be disrupted,” Mr Akunjee told The Telegraph.

In March, Scotland Yard commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said the teenagers could return home without fear of being prosecuted for terrorism, as long as no evidence emerged of them being engaged in violence.

In April Amira Abase appeared to have tweeted a picture of a takeaway feast from her new home in the heart of the murderous regime.

The picture shows a huge take-out feast, including fried chicken, flatbread, chips, pizza, kebab and a soft drink.

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It was released on the Facebook page of Mosul Eye, who purports to be a blogger in Iraq, and set up the page "to communicate what's happening in Mosul to the rest of the world, minute by minute from an independent historian inside Mosul".

He opposes ISIS and remains anonymous, writing in detail in both English and Arabic about the inner-workings of the group, their execution of civilians and casualties they suffer from coalition air-strikes.

On May 2, Mosul Eye posted: "Three girls, (Foreigners - British) married to ISIL militants, reported missing, and ISIL (another name for ISIS) announced to all its check points to search for them.

"It is believed that those girls have escaped."

Khadijah Dare

In February ISIS released a video showing 'Jihadi Junior' - the young son of a British-born jihadi bride - executing four men by detonating a car with them inside.

Last month little Isa Dare was seen in a film released by the terror group, saying: “We will kill kuffar (non-believers) out there.”

His 24-year-old mother Grace - who renamed herself Khadijah after leaving home in Deptford, South East London with Isa - travelled to the Middle East and and later married a Swedish IS fighter in 2012.

The little boy stands next to a masked Jihadi - who also appears to be British - who says: " David Cameron , you sent your spies to Syria and and when you authorised your men, thousands of miles away to push a button to kill our brothers who lived in the west.

"So today we're going to kill your spies, the same way they helped you kill our brothers.

"So prepare your army and gather your nations for we too are preparing our army for our meeting lies at Dabiq (another name for Islamic State's 'Caliphate')."

The four 'spies' are then seen sitting in the car before the youngster, who is far too young to understand the sickening gravity of what he is doing, presses the detonator.

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The four men are killed in the explosion. Afterwards the youngster poses triumphantly next to the smouldering wreckage and shouts "Allahu Akhbar" (God is great).

An Arabic subtitle in the video describes little Isa as: "One of the sons of the martyrs who were targeted by Coalition airstrikes."

This appears to be a reference to the Swedish fighter Abu Bakr, who was married to Isa's mother and killed in 2014.

Sally Jones

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The fugitive wife of killed Birmingham terrorist Junaid Hussain has threatened new attacks on US military targets.

Former punk rocker Sally Jones , 45, also vowed to sneak back into Britain.

The Muslim convert has remained at large after the death of terror recruiter Hussain in a US drone attack in August.

She left the UK for Syria in 2013 to fight for ISIS - but was allegedly sighted in Birmingham just days before her husband was killed, amid reports linking her to a plot to attack VJ celebrations.

The mother-of-two appeared use her latest Twitter message to write: “I’m gonna come back & expose some more of your military America & I’m gonna prove to you how social media will be your downfall.”

The message was signed off with one of the ISIS widow’s Islamic pseudonyms: “Umm Hussain.”

Since abandoning Britain for a life of jihad, Jones has become a vocal ISIS propagandist, using social media to spread her message of terror.

She is often banned from platforms like Twitter, but simply returns with a slightly different user name to spout the same violent rhetoric.

Hussain, 21, originally from Kings Heath, died during a US bombing campaign against ISIS.

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He tweeted under the alias Abu Hussain al-Britani and escaped to Syria two years ago while on police bail.

The Prime Minister later said the terrorist and two other Brits fighting for ISIS were killed in “an act of self-defence” after planning attacks in the UK.

Samantha Lewthwaite AKA "The White Widow"

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The British mother of four is one of the Western world’s most wanted terrorism suspects.

Known as the “white widow” Lewthwaite , 32, of Aylesbury, Bucks, was the wife of 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay.

Also known as Sherafiyah Lewthwaite, she is believed to have directed terror raids, suicide attacks and car bombings in Somalia and Kenya, as well as masterminding December's slaughter of 148 people, by gunmen at a university in Garissa, northern Kenya.

She has been rapidly promoted through the ranks of terror group al Shabaab after many of its leaders died in drone attacks.

She has also launched a recruitment drive of teenagers and women as suicide bombers after bribing their desperate families with as little as £300.

One London resident blew herself up at a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu in February killing 25.

A security chief, in the Somalian capital, frequently bombed by al Shabaab, said: “This lady sits at the right hand of the leader directing attacks.”

The London University graduate was quickly recognised as intelligent and evil-minded enough by jihadi terror bosses to be trusted with the most horrific atrocities.

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A senior Somali anti-terror officer says Lewthwaite is now at the right hand of al Shabaab leader Ahmad Umar and is suspected of ordering the deaths of more than 400 innocent people.

He said: “She is an evil person but a very clever operator.”

She has been on the run for four years after she and British terror suspect Germaine Grant plotted to blow up tourists in Mombassa.

It is thought she has changed her appearance through weight loss, plastic surgery and hair dye, and is believed to be in hiding in Somalia.

Yusra Hussien

Yusra Hussien, of Bristol, fled to Turkey in September 2014 after claiming she was going to school

Then 15, she ran off to join Islamic State after being groomed on a dating site called Jihad Matchmaker, police fear.

It is feared Yusra, from Bristol, was brainwashed into running away to get to Syria by Islamic State plotters who are trying to get wives for their men.

In February last year her friends told the BBC that the teenager contacted them on social media to confirm she was now married in Syria.

However her family denied the claims.

She will probably never return home, according to a police officer.

Detective Inspector Dickon Turner, of the South West Counter Terrorism team, spoke to pupils at her former school.

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He said: "Sadly, Yusra will probably never come back, and that is the tragedy of it all.

"We want to prevent another case like Yusra. Something like that is a tragedy for her, and her family, and many others.

Tormented mum Safiya Hussien pleaded for Yusra to return.

Gifted student Yusra skipped school in Bristol and caught a coach to Heathrow Airport where she met an unnamed 17-year-old girl from Lambeth in South London, where they flew to Istanbul.

Mum Safiya, 40, told a news conference in 2014: “Yusra I am your mum ...I love you. Come back, please, please, please. We miss you – please come back.

“I love you so much. All your brothers and your sister miss you so much.

“The house is not the same since when you left.”

It is feared Yusra was recruited while using her computer at the family’s four-bedroom home in Easton, Bristol.