A federal jury found a Brooklyn woman guilty of getting military training from ISIS while in Syria, capping off a contentious two-week trial in Brooklyn Federal Court where the woman testified that she was forced to marry an ISIS fighter as a teen.

Halina Salman, 27, wearing a light purple hijab and pink hoodie, broke down crying as the jury left the room. Her mother, Brandy Salman, wept in the front row, cradled by a family member. Salman now faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

Jurors convicted Salman of the sole charge against her a week after she took the stand in her own defense describing her life in marital captivity after her father moved her family to ISIS-controlled territory in Syria at age 17. She told of being married off to a stranger after her 18th birthday for a $5,000 payment.

Prosecutors painted Salman as a willing ISIS participant and devoted bride who received AK-47 training with the Nusaybah Khatiba, an all-female ISIS brigade.

The jurors rejected the defense argument that the direct evidence of her training was too scant - a photo of a handwritten document on her husband's phone, saying she was authorized to receive a weapon; a 20-second-long video taken by her husband showing her handling and  drilling  with his Ak-47; and her ISIS Name, or  kunya,  which prosecutors said she selected to include what translates as  foreign fighter. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Shami tried to cast Salman as a liar, pointing to moments after her surrender to coalition forces in Syria where, the prosecutor contended, she gave her married name and claimed she was born in Germany, not the U.S.

 The defendant's father was an ISIS fighter. Her husband was an ISIS fighter. And the defendant herself wanted to be a foreign fighter. She named herself  foreign fighter.' 

She added,  The defendant made conscious choices to support ISIS, a violent and brutal organization. 

Salman's lawyer, Mia Eisner-Grynberg of the Federal Defenders, called the case a  grave miscarriage of justice. 

 Halima has spent her last 10 years surviving ISIS, and the (detention) camps, and this prosecution
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