A New York woman accused of receiving weapons training from the Islamic State group was tricked by her father into traveling to Syria , where she became an unwilling teen bride to a militant fighter, her lawyer told a jury Thursday.

Halima Salman, a U.S. citizen born in Brooklyn , was 17 when her father took the family to Turkey in 2017, then put her in a van without saying where they were going and drove into Syria, where the van was surrounded by men with guns, according to her lawyer, Mia Eisner-Grynberg.

There, she became caught up in the Syrian Civil War. She spent three months locked in a room while the sound of bombs striking nearby targets could frequently be heard. Her father, an Islamic State sympathizer, died after he was injured in a bombing in 2018, but not before arranging for her to marry a member of the group when she turned 18. She was then detained in Baghouz, Syria, in 2019 by forces opposed to the Islamic State.

When Salman returned to the U.S.…