July 6, 2015
Umm Sayyaf is now the top female ISIS captive in U.S. custody, being held in Iraq and providing loads of intelligence beyond what American analysts found on the computers and cell phones seized during the raid that killed her former husband, who ran ISIS’ oil and gas operations. Umm Sayyaf’s marriage to an ISIS higher-up gave her rare insights into how men run the financial and tactical operations. But she also played a commanding role in her own right, helping to run ISIS’ networks of women fighters and operatives, as well as playing enforcer for the men’s sex slaves, four defense officials told The Daily Beast.