'Jihadi' mom loses custody of kids she tried to take to Syria

A mother-of-three in the UK who was funded by "jihadists" to take her children to strife-torn Syria has lost custody of her kids under a court order.
The family, who cannot be identified, were stopped at Birmingham Airport moments before boarding a plane for Germany.
Her mobile phone was found with so-called Islamic State images and pictures of masked children with guns, the BBC reported today.
After Leicester City Council brought care proceedings, the High Court ordered the youngsters live with their grandparents but with supervision.
The children's father is believed to have fled Britain in 2013 and is now in Chechnya with a terrorist group, Justice Keehan said.

Specialist officers from the Counter Terrorism Unit swooped on the family in July last year as they were about to leave for Munich.

The mother claimed they were heading off on holiday but a search of their nine cases found a travel itinerary to Turkey.
Hidden inside a pack of painkillers were telephone numbers including a suspected Islamic State militant based in Syria.
The family home appeared to have been abandoned and a search found a second mobile phone, which showed the mother had been in regular contact with a "prominent member" of IS.
Justice Keehan concluded that the mother lied "almost throughout the entirety of her evidence" and that links to Syria and IS had been proved.

He added that money the mother was found with "had come from jihadist supporters".
"The intention to cross into Syria was driven by religious ideology and placed the children at risk of suffering significant harm and probable radicalisation.
"That included the real possibility of the children being drawn into the war and being placed at risk of death", he said.
He said that it was understandable that the children wanted to live with their mother but that it was in their best interests they live with the grandparents.
They will be supervised by the council.
Justice Keehan's decision was made in January but has only just been published, the report said.

So far the numbers of women and girls travelling to join Islamic State from Britian are relatively low. Figures are not exact, but it is thought around 10 to 20 per cent of Europeans joining IS are women, with some 50 cases from the UK, according to media reports.