Aqsa Mahmood (born 1993) is a citizen of the United Kingdom, from Glasgow, who stirred controversy in 2013 when she was one of the first UK women to voluntarily slip into Daesh territory, when she was 20 years old.
[3] In 2015, her family challenged the allegation that she played a role in recruiting three teenage girls, the Bethnal Green trio, to follow her example.
[5] In April 2015, Mark Rowley, the Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations of the Metropolitan Police Service and the concurrent Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council Counter-Terrorism Coordination Committee,[6] told the UK House of Commons Home Affairs Committee that security officials were close to compiling enough evidence to charge Mahmood, if she returned to the UK, or to request extradition, if she tried to settle elsewhere.
[7] On 28 September 2015 the United Nations placed her on its sanctions list, reserved for those with ties to Al Qaeda.
[8] UK authorities rescinded her passport, to prevent her return to the United Kingdom.