Twin Sisters Who Fled UK To Syria Now Training To Be Killers

16-year-old twins, Salma and Zahra Halane, who hoped to train as doctors, left their parents’ home in the middle of the night and are now believed to be training for battle in Syria.


L-R: two visitors arriving the family’s home, Salma and Zahra Halane, inset police leaving the family home

The girls believed to be following in the footsteps of their elder brother, who ditched his own ‘excellent’ academic career to join the ISIS terror group around a year ago, were said to have caught a flight to Turkey, before crossing the border....


Before their disappearance, Zahra and Salma were typical teenagers, who pouted for selfies and shopped at Primark like every other girl. They were also doing well in their academics. Last summer Salma achieved 13 GCSEs – 11 of them at grades A* to C – while Zahra passed 15, of which 12 were A*-C. The results put them in the top 10 per cent of their year group at Whalley Range High School for Girls in Manchester. They went on to study at Connell Sixth Form College, where fellow students said they hoped to follow in the footsteps of their elder sister Hafsa, 25, who is at medical school in Denmark after graduating from Manchester University.