Trump bars woman who joined IS from US return

Washington: President Donald Trump has said that an Alabama woman who left the US in November 2014 to join the Islamic State (IS) terror group will not be allowed to return despite her public plea to come back and stand trial in America. Hoda Muthana was 20 when she left her home to marry an IS fighter in Syria. She had told her family she was going to a university event in Turkey. She now lives with her young son in a Syrian refu­gee camp.

“I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday. Pompeo had earlier said that Muthana was not an American citizen and will not be admitted, CNN reported. “Ms Hoda Muthana is not a US citizen and will not be admitted into the US. She does not have any legal basis, no valid US passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the US,” he said in a statement. (IANS)

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