A former Kansas schoolteacher has been arrested and charged with leading an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria over the past decade.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, a 42-year-old U.S. citizen, was charged with providing and conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, the Department of Justice announced Saturday, noting her leadership role in the ISIS faction Khatiba Nusaybah.
The details of Fluke-Ekren’s involvement with ISIS were unsealed by federal prosecutors Saturday after she was taken into custody by the FBI and transferred to Virginia; the criminal complaint against Fluke-Ekren dates back to 2019, but she was only recently apprehended in Syria.
“Fluke-Ekren’s alleged ISIS-related conduct includes, but is not limited to, planning and recruiting operatives for a potential future attack on a college campus inside the United States and…
