A runaway schoolgirl Shamima Begum who fled to Syria to join ISIS and has been pleading to come back to the UK has given birth.
The 19-year-old was one of three schoolgirls, along with Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase, from Bethnal Green Academy who left the UK to travel to Syria in February 2015.
Shamima, from East London, says she does not regret joining the terrorist organisation, but has been living in a refugee camp in Syria where she has now given birth to a son, her family claim.
Speaking with her newborn baby at her side, she told Sky News today: "I feel a lot of people should have sympathy for me, for everything I've been through, you know I didn't know what I was getting into when I left, I just was hoping that maybe for the sake of me and my child they let me come back.
"Because I can't live in this camp forever. It's not really possible."
Asked to respond to comments that she could be potentially very dangerous if she returned, she said: "They don't have any evidence against me doing anything dangerous, when I went to Syria I was just a housewife, the entire four years I stayed at home, took care of my husband, took care of my kids, I never did anything.
"I never made propaganda, I never encouraged people to come to Syria.
"They don't really have proof that I did anything that is dangerous."
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Earlier, a statement released through the family lawyer said: "We, the family of Shamima Begum, have been informed that Shamima has given birth to her child, we understand that both she and the baby are in good health.
"As yet we have not had direct contact with Shamima, we are hoping to establish communications with her soon so that we can verify the above."
Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright, who previously served as attorney general, said the nationality of the child was a "difficult question", but added: "What really matters I think is to determine what should happen instantly and urgently to her because we do have to be concerned about the health of that baby, we have to be concerned about her health too.
"But in the end she will have to answer for her actions. So I think it is right that if she's able to come back to the UK that she does so but if she does so she will do it on the understanding that we can hold her to account for her behaviour thus far."
It comes as a counter-extremism expert warned that de-radicalising Ms Begum could prove a "challenge", while the family of another jihadi bride said serving jail terms in the UK should remain an option.
Ms Begum, who told The Times she did not regret travelling to IS-controlled Syria, said she understood she could face a police investigation if she manages to return.
The teenager fears her baby will be taken away from her if she returns and her family, who believe she was groomed, pleaded for the teenager to be allowed back to the UK "as a matter of urgency".
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has warned he "will not hesitate" to prevent the return of Britons who travelled to join Islamic State, but Justice Secretary David Gauke has warned: "We can't make people stateless."
