Posted on November 15, 2019

Judge Rules Woman Who Left Alabama to Join ISIS is Not U.S. citizen

Marisa Fernandez, Axios, November 14, 2019

A judge ruled Thursday that Hoda Muthana, a 24-year-old Alabama woman who traveled to Syria in November 2014 to join ISIS, is not a U.S. citizen because her Tunisian father had diplomatic status in the U.S. when she was born.

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The lawsuit concerning Muthana’s citizenship is centered around her father’s diplomatic status for the Yemeni government at the time of her birth.

  • Muthana said she was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1994, and traveled to Syria with her U.S. passport.

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