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Bride of ISIS: From 'happily ever after' to hell www.cnn.com/2017/04/26/middleeast/bride-of-isis-islam-mitat/index.html
(CNN)Islam and Ahmed met online, looking for their "happily ever after" through a Muslim dating site.

But instead of bringing love and contentment, their marriage left Islam trapped in a living nightmare.

Fast forward four years -- and three husbands - and she and her two small children are caught in limbo in northern Syria.

Islam Mitat met her first husband on a Muslim dating website -- then he took her to live in ISIS territory.
Islam Mitat met her first husband on a Muslim dating website -- then he took her to live in ISIS territory.

Islam Mitat is from Morocco; Ahmed Khalil was originally from Kabul in Afghanistan, …show more content…

ISIS did its best to keep her and other muhajarin away from local Syrians who might help them, and smugglers hesitated to help, because they faced execution if caught. Others asked exorbitant fees -- as much as USD $5,000 -- according to Mitat.

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Eventually ISIS compelled her to marry for a third time, this time to a man who Mitat describes as a gentle soul, called Abu Abdallah Al-Afghani.

This name - given to him by ISIS -- indicates he was of Afghan origin. Mitat, though, says he was Indian, and that his mother lived in Australia. She says he may have been an Australian national.

Although ISIS propaganda videos portray life in Raqqa as a believer's paradise, Mitat says it was anything but.

It's "like you're dead, it's not life," she recalls.

She says she was "always scared, always hearing bombs, guns, shooting." In recent months, food began running short, and power and water cuts grew longer.

Mitat had a second child, daughter Maria, with her third husband, but the more difficult the situation became, the more eager she was to flee.

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