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The British schoolgirl wife of an Australian teenage jihadist is alive and still fighting for ISIS, according to a friend she fled with to Syria.

Amira Abase left east London aged 15 with two school friends and married 17-year-old Abdullah Elmir who fled Sydney in 2014 before turning up in the war zone.

Elmir, dubbed the 'Ginger Jihadi' because of his long red hair, became a poster boy for the Islamic State and appeared in sick propaganda videos.

He is believed to have died only months later in a bombing raid in late 2015 but his wife is still on the battlefield.

Abase is currently with ISIS fighters in their final stand in the Syrian city of Baghuz, according to one of the school friends she fled with. 

Hatred: Abdullah Elmir became one of the youngest Western fighters to have joined ISIS when he fled Sydney in 2014 aged 17

Jihadi bride: Amira Abase, left in her school uniform and right in September 2014 - five months before she fled

Shamima Begum, 19, who is nine months pregnant with her third child, is living in a refugee camp in northern Syria having chosen to flee the terror group's last stand two weeks ago over fears for her unborn child. 

In an interview with The Times published on Wednesday, the teenager said she didn't regret her decision to join ISIS but wants to 'come home to Britain'. 

She said her fellow jihadi bride Kadiza Sultana died two years ago in an air strike but Elmir's wife Abase is still alive in Baghuz, although she hasn't seen her since mid-2018.   

Elmir became one of the youngest western fighters to have joined ISIS when he fled Sydney in 2014.

He was working as a butcher when he suddenly disappeared. 

Call to arms: Elmir in a propaganda video vowing to fly the IS flag over Buckingham Palace

After arriving in Syria, he appeared in an IS video wearing military fatigues and flanked by dozens of armed fighters, boasting: 'Until we put the black flag [of IS] on top of Buckingham Palace, until we put the black flag on top of the White House, we will not stop, and will keep on fighting'. 

He also dared western leaders to send their troops to Syria for a ground war with the terror group, which controlled swathes of territory across Iraq and Syria, and commanded the loyalty of affiliated terror groups in Africa and beyond.

Former school mates at Condell Park High School described Elmir as a 'reserved and 'easy-going' pupil, and never suspected that he would turn out to be an extremist.

His family, who live in the multi-cultural suburb of Bankstown in western Sydney, refused to comment on the videos at the time. 

But an unnamed relative later described Elmir as 'an idiot' who had been brainwashed by ISIS.     

Elmir confirmed that he married British schoolgirl Abase in a text conversation with British newspaper The Mail on Sunday in 2015. 

Boasting of his 'connections' in Britain, he warned of attacks against the UK, saying 'brothers that I know there… are itching to do an attack'.

He added: 'This is a direct threat'.

Elmir also callously mocked the massacre of 38 tourists by an ISIS-inspired gunman on a beach in Tunisia in 2015, urging Allah to 'bless' murderer Seifeddine Rezgui for carrying out the attack.

Communicating through an encrypted text message service called Kik, Elmir said: 'And on the Tunisia attacks, May Allah bless the man who slaughtered those filthy kuffar [infidels] and May Allah grant him the highest level in Jannah [Paradise].

'May the kuffar that this man killed taste the heat of Jahannam [hell] and their families be reunited with them in there.'  

Escape: Amira Abase (left), pictured with Bethnal Green Academy friends, Shamima Begum (right), 15, and Kadiza Sultana (centre), 16, as they walked through Gatwick Airport on February 17

Later in 2015, The Mail On Sunday newspaper revealed schoolgirl Abase was trying to groom other young people to flee Britain and join Islamic State.

Communicating via Kik messages with a reporter who was posing as a 16-year-old girl from East London, Abase gave instructions on how to travel to Syria as she had done, and suggested the reporter could become the second wife of a Western jihadi.

Abase declined to confirm whether she was married herself, but now it appears she was trying to persuade a young girl to marry a man who fits the description of her own husband.

Her description of the groom as being aged 18, and half-Lebanese and half-Australian and a 'frontline fighter' matched that of Elmir.

She said: 'Hes born muslim, not Asian thow [sic], hes half Lebanese and half Australian'.

When asked why the groom wanted a second wife, Abase replied: 'I dunno, to provide for her [first wife] ext [extra]'.

During the exchanges with the undercover reporter on Kik, Abase also mocked the British victims of the Tunisian massacre.

She wrote 'lol', which means 'laugh out loud,' when she was told that 30 Britons had died in the atrocity.  

The family of Abase declined to comment on the revelation that she has married Elmir.

But a source close to the family said they believed that she was married in March 2015, but did not know to whom.

Charlie Winter, a senior researcher at the counter-extremist think-tank The Quilliam Foundation, said marriages between such young people were not uncommon in the Islamic State. 

'Islamic State permits a girl to be married from the age of nine, but it appears for them the ideal ages [to be married] are between 15 and 19,' he said.

'A girl can in theory stay unmarried there, but it is not the done thing, and staying unmarried does not fit into the vision of many of the girls who go there.

'They go to marry a jihadi warrior and have their children.

Pose: Elmir was working as a butcher in Sydney when he suddenly disappeared and later arrived in Syria. Pictures (above) emerged of him posing with guns in Syria

'I don't think Elmir himself groomed Amira to go to Syria, but it might have been another woman. It appears that women groom other women, as it is considered impious for a man to contact a woman before she has migrated to Syria.'

Born in Ethiopia, Abase spent time in Britain and Germany before her family settled in east London when she was 11.

THE MoS REPORT THAT FLUSHED HIM OUT: CHILLING MESSAGES HE SENT TO THIS NEWSPAPER...

Abdullah Elmir sent his chilling message to The Mail on Sunday in response to our undercover investigation which revealed his 16-year-old British wife Amira Abase was grooming a reporter posing as the jihadi's potential second bride. 

Sending messages from Syria, Abase stated she was one of the three girls from Tower Hamlets, East London, and revelled in the Tunisia massacre, commenting 'Lol' – meaning laugh out loud. 

She issued instructions to our 'bride' to bring extra bras, as the quality in Syria is terrible.

A bright pupil who passed three GCSEs in maths and science early at age 14, she attended Bethnal Green Academy where she became friends with Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16.

But the three girls became the subject of an international manhunt after leaving Britain for Syria in February 2015, having flown out of Gatwick Airport to Istanbul.

They then made an 18-hour bus journey to the border town of Gaziantep in eastern Turkey. Their families made a tearful appeal on national television, urging them to come back – including Abase's father, Abase Hussen, 47, who blamed police and the girls' school for doing very little to protect or stop his daughter from leaving the UK.

But two months after Abase's disappearance, a video emerged on the internet, which showed Mr Hussen at an extremist rally in 2012 outside the US embassy in London.

Mr Hussen was part of a flag-burning mob in the demo organised by hate preacher Anjem Choudary.

In April 2015, Mr Hussen admitted taking his daughter to an extremist rally when she was 13, and conceded that the teenager may have been influenced by the demonstration.

In messages to The Mail on Sunday, the schoolgirl drew a bleak picture of what happens to a western jihadi bride when she enters Syria for the first time.

She told how the foreign women are met at the border by armed jihadis and taken into women-only safe houses called maqqars where they remain confined for weeks, and deprived of communication with the outside world until they choose a husband.

She said: 'When u first come in to dawla [IS territory] ur put in to a sisters house but u cant go out, no net and no phone allowed'.

And from her messages it appears that life for a jihadi bride is not much better, as she explains that a woman has to seek the permission of her husband before she can go out or attend school.