British ‘jihadi bride’ Shamima Begum’s baby has died in Syrian refugee camp, US-backed group says

The baby son of Shamima Begum, a British-born teenager who left London to join Islamic State, has died in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Friday.

SDF spokesman Mustefa Bali said he could confirm the death but declined to specify how or when it happened. He had previously denied the baby had died in a Twitter post that has since been deleted.

Begum, 19, a so-called jihadi bride who ran away from her London home to marry an Islamic State fighter, who is now also dead, gave birth last month in a refugee camp in northeast Syria.

She travelled from East London to Syria in 2015 and said she had previously given birth to two other children. They are said to have also died, apparently from illness and malnutrition.