A federal jury will sort out whether a young Brooklyn woman on trial for charges she got automatic weapon training from ISIS is a terrorist or a victim of an oppressive Islamic state, in what's believed to be the first U.S. court trial of an alleged female ISIS member.

Halima Salman was 17 when her father brought her and her family to Syria and married her off to an ISIS fighter - and federal prosecutors hope to convince the jury that the young ex-Brooklynite joined the terrorist group and got military training to use an AK-47.

But Salman's lawyers say the government is only giving the jury a  cherry-picked  part of a much larger picture. They argue that her father forced her into going to Syria, where she was trapped in a life that offered women few options but to do what ISIS and her husband told her.

Salman, now 27, is on trial in Brooklyn Federal Court, charged with knowingly receiving military training from a terrorist organization, a charge which carries a maximum 10-year sentence. Law enforcement sources say she's the first alleged female ISIS member to face a federal court trial in the U.S.

 After the defendant turned 18, she married an ISIS partner who was a few years older than her. You'll see a photograph of the defendant's wedding day in front of an ISIS flag between July 2017 and March 2018,  Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Amir said in his opening statement Tuesday.  After she arrived in Syria, got married, came of age, the defendant received military training by ISIS, and the defendant practiced that military training. 

The evidence against Salman will include video of  holding, aiming, and walking with a deadly assault rifle,  Amir said, and after  extremist content  she exchanged with her husband.

Defense lawyer Marissa Sherman of the Federal Defenders countered that the government won't provide a scrap of evidence about what her training entialed, how many others attended it or who they were, how long it lasted, or where it was held.

 You will not hear from a single witness about any of these questions…. Not only can the government not tell you about the training, yo
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