The Shamima Begum Case and Backstory of Failed Syria Regime Change

When former Islamic State member Shamima Begum was found in Syria by a Times journalist in 2019, Western intervention to bring down the regime during the civil war was already a fading memory. Embarrassed by its rude return to public consciousness, not least after the Manchester Arena bombing of May 2017, the government quickly manoeuvred to reclaim the initiative: then home secretary Sajid Javid took the unprecedented decision to revoke her British citizenship. Taunted by the right-wing press to go further, his successor tossed the additional red meat a few months later that Begum, still a teenager at the time time, would never be allowed back.

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