NEWS: British Mother Tareena Shakil Who Joined IS Scaled Barbed Wire Fence To Flee Fate As A Jihadi Bride

A young mother who left her Staffordshire home to join Islamic State (IS) fighters in Syria has fled the terrorist stronghold.

TOWIE and Spice Girls fan Tareena Shakil travelled to Raqqa with her 14-month-old son Zaheem in October.

The 25-year-old had told her family she was going on holiday to Spain but instead went to Turkey where she crossed the border with her toddler. She had earlier set up a Facebook page declaring herself a "slave to allah" and posted images of IS fighters.

Tareena Shakil and her toddler son Zaheem

Now Tareena is back in Turkey after scaling a barbed wire fence at the border, begging armed snipers to spare her and her son's lives, screaming: “I’m desperate”.

A friend told The Sun: “She realised when she got to Syria she had been the victim of false propaganda from IS. It’s a miracle she escaped alive.”

He added: "Trying to leave is normally a death sentence."

The source claims Tareen decided to flee after IS chiefs attempted to force her to become a jihadi bride.

He said: “They tried to force her to marry a man and when she refused he attacked her.

“Tareena decided she couldn’t take it anymore, broke into a property and stole back her passport.

“She thought she’d be shot dead but she was so desperate she didn’t care whether she lived or died. The border guards didn’t fire for some reason – maybe because she was carrying her son. Her hands were hurt and her feet cut to ribbons climbing the fence.”

Last year Tareena contacted her family to say she had run across the border into Syria and made it to Raqqa with her son.

She alluded to the ordeal she and her child endured, saying: “So many people died coming. They got shot at the border. But we made it. We ran across the border.”

Tareena is now being questioned at a Turkish refugee camp in Gaziantep as her family attempt to secure her release.

Raqqa is the town closest to where US journalist James Foley was beheaded, has been identified by experts as a hotspot for young British girls who have travelled to join extremist fighters.