Hoda Muthana

Hoda Muthana (; born October 28, 1994) is a U.S.-born Yemeni woman who emigrated from the United States to Syria to join ISIS in November 2014. She surrendered in January 2019 to coalition forces fighting ISIS in Syria and said she regretted joining ISIS, but has been denied access back to the United States after a U.S. court ruling rejected her claim to American citizenship. The courts ruled that when she was born, her father was a Yemeni diplomat, making her ineligible for American citizenship by birth. The Guardian would report years later that Muthana claimed her Twitter account had been hacked by others

BuzzFeed conducted an interview with Muthana, her father, and a friend in 2015. Her father expressed regret at having failed to realize her plans in time to stop her, and described trying to convince her to come back. Muthana herself continued to express support for ISIS in her communications with the journalist. The friend said that there was a gulf between Muthana's real world self and the more radical persona she adopted on Twitter, offering as an example that Muthana claimed she had worn modest jilbābs and abayas since eighth grade, when she had only adopted modest dress recently. She then married a Tunisian ISIS fighter and gave birth to a son. said she "deeply regrets" joining ISIS,

Donald Trump instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to not allow her back into the country. Pompeo released a press statement that read: "Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States. She does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States. We continue to strongly advise all U.S. citizens not to travel to Syria." Her lawyer, Charles Swift disputes the government's argument regarding birthright citizenship, asserting her father was discharged from his diplomatic position a month before she was born.

In November 2019, a federal judge ruled that she did not have American citizenship.

In 2021, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision of the District Court, ruling that Muthana is not a US citizen. In 2022, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal.

Later developments In April 2021, her sister Arwa Muthana was arrested for attempting to join ISIS with her husband, James Bradley. In September 22, Muthana’s sister and brother-in-law pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Arwa was sentenced to nine years in prison and Bradley was sentenced to eleven years in prison.

, Muthana and her 7 year old son were being held in the Al-Roj detention camp (along with over 65,000 suspected Islamic State members and their families) in north-east Syria by US-allied Kurdish forces. At this time she was well-known in the camp for being outspoken. She did not wear a face veil and scrawled F-ISIS on the wall outside her tent. She told CNN that "all she wanted" was to return to the US, and that she would prefer to serve time in an American prison. She stated if she was ever allowed back in the United States, she would try to help de-radicalize young people.

Muthana was interviewed by the Middle East Eye in August 2026, accusing live fire by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) soldiers of coming dangerously close to her child during a confrontation between the SDF personnel and some of the other women held at al-Roj camp. She communicated a series of accusations of brutality and bad faith on the part of the camp's personnel.