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Around four years later, she became a leader and organiser of Khatiba Nusayba, an all-female IS battalion set up in the group's de-facto capital of Raqqa, Syria. US officials believe her primary duty there was providing military training to the women, including in the use of AK-47s, grenades and suicide belts.