Exiled jihadi bride, Shamima Begum ditches her niqab for fashionable new Western look as she battles to return to Britain from Syrian camp

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With her fashionable sunglasses, styled hair and casual clothes, she looks almost unrecognizable.Camp manager Nora Abdo said many in the Roj camp were rejecting IS ideology, saying: 'Some are thinking about the future for their kids'. Pictured: Shamima Begum before she left Britain

But this young woman is 21-year-old jihadi bride Shamima Begum, posing in western clothing in a bid to reinvent herself as she fights to return to Britain.

She agreed to be photographed at the weekend after she was tracked down to the Roj camp for IS supporters in north-east Syria.

Begum, 21, no longer wears her black niqab or headscarves. She is one of several British women stranded in the Roj camp in Syria, after having their citizenship revoked

The former IS child bride from Bethnal Green, east London, is fighting to return to the UK and has stopped wearing a black niqab and headscarves.

But, while happy to be photographed, Begum would not comment while her lawyers challenge the decision to strip her of her British citizenship.

Last month the UK’s Supreme Court ruled on national security grounds that she cannot return to the UK to pursue an appeal against the removal of her citizenship in 2019.

She is now reported to be keeping company with other women at the camp who have abandoned their headscarfs and Islamic dress.