ISIS widows turn to crowdfunding 

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Wives and widows of ISIS fighters have turned to crowdfunding to raise money to buy their escape from detention camps in northern Syria. Vera Mironova, author of “From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists,” tells host Marco Werman about the women, the camps, and the crowdfunding campaigns.

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