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Christopher Bucktin & Charlie Jones

Teacher dubbed 'Empress of ISIS' who led female death squad including children jailed

A former American schoolteacher teacher nicknamed the ‘Empress of ISIS' who led an all-female death squad including children has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

In a plea deal with US prosecutors, Allison Fluke-Ekren admitted to one count of conspiring to provide support to the terrorist group.

She told a judge in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, she didn’t know that some of the 100 women she led and trained to use guns and explosives were as young as 10-year-old.

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