British mother who joined Daesh jailed for 6 years

A British mother who took her toddler son to Syria has been jailed for six years for joining the Daesh terrorist group, according to the BBC.

Tareena Shakil, 26, is the first woman from the UK to return from the self-declared caliphate to be convicted of the offense.

Sentencing her, Justice Inman said she had shown no remorse and had known her son's future would ultimately be "as Daesh fighter".

He told Shakil: "You allowed him to be photographed next to an AK47."

In October 2014, Shakil and her 1-year-old son boarded a plane to Turkey and then traveled to Syria. After three months Shakil fled, taking a taxi from Daesh stronghold of Raqqa to the Turkish border and then returning to Britain. She was arrested at Heathrow Airport in February 2015 and her son has since been taken into social care.

Shakil, from Birmingham in central England, denied the charges, claiming she wanted to live under strict Islamic law, not support terrorism and telling jurors she had made a mistake.