An internal security patrol member escorts women, reportedly wives of Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in the al-Hol camp in al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria, on July 23, 2019. - Stabbing guards, stoning aid workers and flying the Islamic State group's black flag in plain sight: the wives and children of the 'caliphate' are sticking by the jihadists in a desperate Syrian camp. Months after the defeat of the jihadist proto-state, families of IS fighters are among 70,000 people crammed into the Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BI DELIL SULEIMAN (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
  • A recently unsealed 2019 criminal complaint filed against Allison Fluke-Ekren alleges she led an all-female military battalion on behalf of ISIS.
  • Fluke-Ekren, who has multiple aliases, traveled to Syria and has been involved with a number of terrorism-related activities on behalf of ISIS from at least 2014, including planning and recruiting operatives for a potential future attack on a college campus inside the U.S.
  • Fluke-Ekren was the leader of the Khatiba Nusaybah, a military battalion comprised solely of female ISIS members who were married to male ISIS fighters.
  • Fluke-Ekren is charged with providing and conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
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